Mpeke Town Season 2 - Mpeke Town Series 2 - Episode 12: The value added life
Isaiah's product does not impress Crescent for funding. He receives constructive criticism and collaborates with Maryann to improve their product.
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
Welcome to Shamba Shape Up Uganda!
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