Shamba Shape Up : Series 3 - Shamba Shape Up Series 3 - Ep 1: Mango, Water Pump, Irrigation, Chickens and Pest & disease
The new series starts from Embu and looks at mango farming and how to stop mango diseases, kunde planting, hand pumps, making silage and looking after chickens correctly.
Shamba Shape Up Season 6 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 6 - Ep 5: Cassava, Mangoes, Pest control
We visit Bernard's shamba in Makueni County to help improve his mango crop, introduce him to post-harvest treatment of cassava and inform him on how to manage pests and diseases.
Shamba Shape Up Season 6 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 6 - Ep 9: Mangoes, Chicken, Solar Lights
We are in Bukedia District in Uganda at John and Dimitria Okedi's shamba. We test their soil to find out how to make it better and how to get better prices for their mangoes. We also vaccinate their chicken and introduce them to solar lights.
Shamba Shape Up Season 6 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 6 - Ep 10: Conservation Agriculture, Mangoes, Greenhouses
We are on a whistle stop tour of three shambas. We want to find if our farmers have been following our experts advice.
Shamba Shape Up Season 6 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 6 - Ep 21: Baobab Nutrition, Mango Post Harvest, Kenbro Chicken
We visit Mwinyi and his wife in Kwale county. Learn about the nutritional value of baobab, mango post harvest processing, how to build a brooding pen and raise Kenbro chicken for sale and, the benefits of keeping good farm records.
Shamba Shape Up Season 7 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 7 - Ep 16: Conservation Agriculture, Mangoes, Water Testing
We are in Machakos at Gregory and Teresia Mutua's Shamba. We introduce them to the principles of conservation agriculture, and learn how to properly take care of pests and diseases in mangoes. We also do a soil test and get to know the importance of doing a water test.
Shamba Shape Up Season 8 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 8 - Ep 8: Mangoes, Oranges, Home Biogas
We are in Muranga county visiting Patrick Kitheka who is an expert mango farmer. We learn about value addition in mangoes and how to properly harvest and transport them. We also deal with pests and diseases in oranges and introduce him to a home biogas system.
Shamba Shape Up Season 8 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 8 - Ep 12: Mangoes, Dairy Supplements, Tomatoes
We are Embu County visiting brothers, Peter and Kioko. We learn how to properly manage and harvest mangoes and a new way of drying them to increase their shelf life. We also have a look at how to improve their dairy cows health, introduce them to a new maize variety that matures faster and help with pests and diseases in their tomatoes.
Shamba Shape Up Season 8 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 8 - Ep 14: Plant Nutrition, Tomatoes, Mangoes
We are in Nakuru County visiting Henry and his grandmother Teresia. We do a soil test and educate him on the benefits of using crop specific fertilisers for proper crop nutrition. We also introduce him to a new tomato variety to help increase yield, help deal with pest and diseases in his mangoes and install a solar home system.
Shamba Shape Up Season 9 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 9 - Ep 2: Mangoes, Avocados, Dairy Cows
We are in Muranga County visiting Fredrick Njuguna. We look at how climate change is affecting farmers, learn how to properly take care of pests and diseases in mangoes and avocados and a better form of transport to get farm produce to the market. We also look at how to properly feed dairy cows to increase milk yield.
Shamba Shape Up Season 9 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 9 - Ep 3: Dairy Cows, Mangoes, Marketing
We are Makueni the top mango producing County in Kenya visiting Mukula Kyalo and his family. We learn how to properly manage dairy cows in order to increase milk production, look into the pests and diseases affecting mangoes and how to help with transporting mangoes to the market. We also introduce them to a mobile platform called Digi Farm from Safaricom that extends credit facilities to farmers and helps link them to the market cutting out brokers.
Shamba Shape Up Season 9 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 9 - Ep 4: Beef Cattle, Mangoes, Macadamia
We are in Embu County visiting Cyril Gachawa. We learn how to properly feed and manage beef cattle and how to manage and improve mango varieties. We also bring in an expert on macadamia growing and advice him on how to properly store cereals after harvest.
Shamba Shape Up Season 9 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 9 - Ep 5: Mangoes, Insurance, Energy Saving Jiko
We are in Kithoni village Makueni county visiting Frederick and Elizabeth Ikulume. We have a look at the pests and diseases affecting their mangoes and how to increase profits by reducing wastage of mangoes using a pulping machine. We also introduce them to the benefits of having insurance and using an energy saving jiko.
Shamba Shape Up Season 9 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 9 - Ep 7: Mangoes, Tomatoes, Farm Transport
We are in Karurumo Embu county visiting Alvan and Purity Njeru and their sons Louis and Dennis. We learn how to properly manage mango pests and diseases in order to increase yield and inform them about the benefits of owning a truck for farm transport. We also have a look at the problems facing their greenhouse tomatoes and dairy cows.
Shamba Shape Up Season 9 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 9 - Ep 17: Mangoes, Agricultural Insurance
This episode is dedicated to mangoes, how to manage them, market them and not forgetting value addition. We also look at how insurance can benefit farmers.
Shamba Shape Up Season 12 - Shamba Shape Up Series 12 - Episode 6: Mango Markets, Financing , FAW control & Insurance
Welcome to Shamba Shape Up
This week we are in Machakos County, we’re visiting farmers Rose and Grace, who share more than just blood, they are best friends and they have invested in agribusiness together; apart from farming these two ladies help each other run a pharmacy and clinic, so we’ve come to where farming and pharmacy is done for healthy living…
Let’s go find out how the two sisters are balancing family, farming and pharmacy…
This week we are learning about;
1. Mangoes-Markets
2. Financing chicken feed
3. FAW control
4. Maize Insurance