Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 18: Cow Management, Avocado, Electric Pressure Cooker
Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.
This week we are visiting Hellen and Daniel in Ruiru, farmers we have shaped up before but now wants some help to improve them even further.
First we learn about cow management, choosing the right Artificial Insemination for your Dairy cow and how to deworm your cow.
The Importance of pruning an avocado tree to yield a bumper harvest.
Also we learn about the Electric Pressure Cooker, a new way to cook and also save time, money and health as the same time.
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 9(UG): Maize, Push & pull, Bananas, Cattle and Coffee
Welcome to Shamba Shape Up Uganda!
Today we’re in Kirumba village in Masaka and we’re visiting farmers Joseph Asimwe and Stephen Begumisa, very successful farmers.
Joseph used to be an accountant, but at retirement he became a full-time farmer.
And he takes farming very seriously! He started off with 6 acres and now owns 89 acres of land and he’s still counting. Farming is a business for him!
Joseph grows coffee of course and it’s his main livelihood, he also grows bananas & beans, has planted trees, pasture for his 30 heads of cattle, 20 acres of maize which can bring him up to 50 tons in a good season
That’s when his maize is not attacked by a dreaded pest…
So, let’s first take a look at that!
In this farm we learn about:
1) Maize: Push and pull against Fall Army Worm
2) Bananas: pest and diseases
3) Spraying and deworming cattle
4) Coffee – Pest and diseases
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 10(UG): In calf cow and hygiene, Coffee, Bananas, Goats
Welcome to Shamba Shape Up Uganda!
We’re in Bugana village in Masaka and we’re visiting farmer Immaculate Nalubujje
Clearly a very hard-working farmer, since she’s even constructing a new house from the proceeds of her garden and she only started commercial farming ten years ago!
Immaculate has 4 acres of land, she has intercropped coffee and banana on 3.5 acres, has 5 goats but wants many more and a cow that’s going to give birth in two months.
But does she have any challenges?
Let’s find out
In this farm we learn about:
1) Management of in calf cow and hygiene
2) Management of coffee
3) Bananas management for more production
4) Goats’ supplementation and deworming
Shamba Shape Up - Short Clips - Shamba Shape Up clips - Cows Health deworming
Cows Health deworming