Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - hamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 3: Avocados, Conservation Agriculture, Dairy Cows
Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.
We are in Meru County visiting Douglas and Frederick on their 28 acre farm. We get advice on the best way to plant avocado seedlings for maximum yield, the easiest way to introduce conservation agriculture and some quick tips on how to increase dairy milk production. We also learn how to fight back against the fall armyworm.
Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 4: OFSP, Fall Armyworm, Conservation Agriculture
We are in Makueni County visiting Elisabeth who has been farming for 30 years. We learn the benefits of growing Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes, their nutritional benefits and value addition. We also look at the importance of crop rotation when practicing Conservation Agriculture and how to control the Fall Armyworm using the Push Pull Technology.
Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 5: OFSP, FAll Armyworm , Weeds Control & Safe Use of Herbicides
We are in Yatta in the Machakos County visiting Victoria who has been farming for 7 Years.
We learn about the best practices for growing Orange fleshed sweet potatoes successfully. We also discover how push-pull technology is fighting back against Fall Armyworm and about weeds control and safe use of herbicides after planting.
Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn10 - Ep 10: Conservation Agriculture, Avocado, Dairy Cows, FallArmy
Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.
This week we are in the highlands of Meru county, visiting Joseph and Duncan (Grandfather and Grandson).
We get to learn about conservation agriculture in highlands, Management of avocado trees.
We also learn about how to take care and improve cows that are in-calf and how to fight FallArmy Worm by using Push-Pull technology.
Shamba Shape Up Season 11 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 11 - Ep 6: FallArmy worm, Mangoes, Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes, Market
Welcome to Shamba Shape Up,
This week we are in Machakos, visiting the Mumo family.
The last time we were here, we gave Victoria advice on how to plant Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes and how to manage Fall armyworm.
This week we want to help our farmers find the right markets for their crops.
We learn about:
• How to combat Fall Army Worm
• How to build markets for mangoes
• Also we want to find out all about Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 14(UG): Coffee, Maize, Push & pull and Passion fruits
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We’re in Walukoto village in Mayuge and we’re visiting Hussein Buyiima and his family on their farm. This is a very close-knit family!
At 54 years of age, Hussein is the proud owner of 11 acres. In addition, he also takes care of his father’s 8-acre farm.
Hussein grows many crops: coffee, cocoa, passion fruits, maize, beans and cassava tomatoes, green pepper and avocados.
His wife Hajira is exclusively in charge of the cassava and beans. The rest is on Hussein, but the crops that he really likes are coffee and passion fruit and maize is of course a must for food security, so we’ll focus on these three crops!
In this farm we are learning about:
1) Coffee harvest + checking market prices on app.
2) Maize varieties
3) Maize push and pull method against fall armyworm
4) Passion fruit: Pests and diseases
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 19(UG): Coffee, Maize Push & Pull, Banana and Beans
Welcome to Shamba Shape Up Uganda!
This week we’re in Katuba village in Iganga and we’re visiting Stephen Kakuma, a farmer and a trainer of good agronomic practices for coffee.
Stephen Kakuma is 46 years old and father of 10 children. He says he “needs” more. He has 7 acres of land on which he grows coffee (4 acres), bananas (1 acre) and maize (2 acres). He wants to increase his coffee to 7 acres so that he can go commercial. Last season he harvested about 1600kgs. Stephen has been trained by Café Africa and A2N and he is a trainer himself. But he still has challenges, especially with the black coffee twig borer. Although he knows what he has to do, the pest keeps coming back from his neighbours’ plantations. He talks to them but improvement is very slow. He also has an unknown pest that is affecting the bottom of the tree in the rainy season.
Wants to focus more on goats rather than dairy
The other challenges on his farm include the banana bacterial wilt and FAW on the maize.
He has 1 cow and three goats, but he wants to focus more on goats rather than dairy because they’re easier to keep.
In this farm we learn about:
1) Coffee: Pest and diseases plus raising awareness
2) Maize Fall Army Worm Push and Pull
3) Matoke management: Banana bacterial wilt
4) Iron rich bean varieties
Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 20(UG): chicken, Maize Push & Pull, Banana and OFSP
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This week we’re in Namungalwe village in Iganga and we’re visiting farmer Peter Kifuse.
Peter, a teacher by career, chose a second profession for himself seven years ago: full-time farmer.
His main focus is poultry. Currently he has 700 chicks that are from Turkey. He collects 20 to 21 trays of eggs per day. Previously he had up to 5,000 birds. He says that currently the market for eggs is low, and yet the prices of concentrates keep going up.
He has 3 separate banana plantations, that amount to 2 acres
bananas, that are then sold to the school. His main challenge is banana bacterial wilt.
He has also set up a sweet potato project and we can introduce him to the orange fleshed sweet potato, much better in terms of health for the children.
He also grows maize, but he said that it was attacked by caterpillars. He didn’t know what it was, but it was very likely fall armyworm. It’s an interesting subject for both Peter and the children, so we’ll do it in the form of an outdoor practical science lesson.
In this farm we learn about:
1) Chicken management
2) Maize Fall Army Worm Push and Pull
3) Matoke management banana bacterial wilt
4) Introducing Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes
Shamba Shape Up - Short Clips - Shamba Shape Up Clips: FAW animation
Fall Army Worms Animation
Shamba Shape Up Season 13 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 13 - Ep 4: EPC, Minimum Tillage, Dairy Breeding & Fall Army Worm
Welcome to Shamba Shape Up.
This week we’re in Limuru! Back visiting George Kairu who’s shamba we shaped up a year ago. He has really improved his dairy heard from our last visit and has boosted his milk production from 5 Liters to 100 Litres a day.
Let’s see how we can help him on this episode with:
1. How to breed you dairy cows.
2. How to till your land using minimum tillage.
3. How to control fall army worm.
4. Cooking with the electric pressure cook as a young bachelor.