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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 Sn 10 - Ep 7: Quality meat, OFSP Product, Conservation Agriculture

Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary. We have something special for you; we have a series about food security and quality. We head to supermarkets counter and see how to get best meat for your meal and more on sweet-fleshed potato products. We also visit a young farmer Francis Mwangi in Muranga County to learn how to prepare field using conservation agriculture and improve the crops & raise profits by planting trees around the field.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn10 - Ep 9: OFSP, Dairy Cows, Trees and Insurance

Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary. This week we are in Bungoma visiting Bishop Nelson. We get to learn about harvesting method of Orange Fleshed Sweet potatoes so as to fetch better market prices, How to improve and choose best breed for milk production for your dairy cows. We also learn about how to plant and choose the right trees for your area and also learn about how to insure your farm.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn10 - Ep 11: OFSP, Cookstove, Cow management, Insurance

Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.

This week we are in Homabay County, visiting Michael and Benta Odada (Husband and wife)

We get to learn the best way to handle harvested Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes, about the LPG Cookstove.

We also get Top tips for managing cows and also what to do when disaster strike by getting agricultural insurance.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn10 - Ep 14: Orange Fleshed sweet potato, Electric Pressure cooker

Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.

This week we are going to see how you can make most out of your farm products and boost your immune system on Learning on saving in your kitchen.

This episode we dig into the most traditional of African culture - FOOD, what we eat, where we get and how we cook it.

We remind ourselves about Orange Fleshed Sweet Potato, on how to plant, harvest and how to use it in our everyday food.

We also learn about the modern stove that is Electric Pressure cooker and how it helps you to save money, time and solve / avoid the smoke issue.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 16: OFSP, Insurance, Post-Harvest and Dairy Cows

Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.

We are in Homabay County, before visiting the farm we head to Jugs Bakery, they bake the best breads and cakes in Homabay County.

We learn how to bake using mashed Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes also know as Puree and the importance of baking with it.

This week we visit farmer Samuel Omoro with a farm stretching 8 acres.

First:

We get advice on how to avoid and insure our farm and livestock if any major disaster strikes e.g. Drought, Flood or if any death of livestock.

Second:

We get advice about post-Harvest losses, what causes them and how applying food quality and safety standards help reduce waste while increasing farmers profit.

Third:

We get advice on looking after dairy cows on one of the main challenges farmers experience that is internal and external parasites.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 21: Trees, Dairy Cows, Post-Harvest, OFSP

Welcome to a new series of Shamba Shape Up celebrating our tenth anniversary.

This week we are in Homabay County Visiting Gideon farm that stretches five acres.

We get to learn the best way to cut trees safely in your home and how to increase milk yields in dairy cows

Also we find out how to avoid post-harvest losses after harvesting and getting the best price for the orange fleshed sweet potato and how they are graded by quality and processed to make puree for baking.

Shamba Shape Up Season 10 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 10 - Ep 23: Potatoes,OFSP, Record Keeping ,Insurance

he last few weeks has not been easy with the desert locust destroying crops and you farmers unable to reach the market on time because of Covid19.

We want to give you a boost into the planting season :

Looking how to plant Irish potatoes and how to keep records and organize your farm finances in this critical times.

How corona virus has affected farmers and what to do about it.

We are going to take a look at the past years of shamba shape up and see what we can learn.

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 Up Season 11 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 11 - Ep 18: Savings & loans, Bee keeping and Orange fleshed sweet potato

Welcome to Shamba Shape Up

This week we are in Isiolo County.

Join us for a special episode here and learn about:

1) Village and loan groups

2) Bee keeping

3) Best way to manage your orange fleshed sweet potato

Shamba Shape Up Season 11 - Shamba Shape Up Sn 11 - Ep 21: Orange sweet fleshed potato, Honey, Grass

Welcome to Shamba Shape Up

This week we've got a special episode for you in Baringo County.

We learn about:

1) Growing the orange fleshed sweet potato

2) Harvesting Honey

3) Making money from grasses

Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1-Ep 2(UG): Soil test, Pest & Diseases, Coffee, Bananas and OFSP

Welcome to Shamba Shape Up Uganda!

Today we’re in Bulika village in Mukono and we’re visiting farmer Olivia Kiwombeeka. A very hard-working lady and mother to 14 children. She has a 4-acre farm where she grows coffee, bananas, sweet potatoes, cassava, beans! And don’t forget the cows, the pigs, the goats, the chicken, the pigeons!!!

Where does she find the energy???

In this farm we are learning about:

1. Soil fertility and manure drying and soil testing

2. Pests and diseases control in Coffee plantation

3. Bananas: Good farming practices

4. Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes

Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1-Ep 5(UG): Organic Farming, Maize & Beans, Soil testing and OFSP

Welcome to Shamba Shape Up Uganda!

Today we’re in Namang’ang’a village, in Mukono. And we’re here to meet with Robert Ssebuyungu, the chairman of a group of 30 farmers called Balikyewunya. Robert and his wife Noeline have five children. They’re both hardworking farmers who grow maize, nakati, cassava and sweet potatoes on their two acres.

No surprises there! But wait… Robert and his group of farmers decided to go organic this year. Now that’s unusual!

In this farm we are learning about:

1. Organic Farming

2. Maize and beans

3. Nakati good farm management

4. Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes

Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1-Ep 6(UG): Coffee, OFSP, Financial Literacy and Kitchen garden

Welcome to Shamba Shape Up Uganda!

Today we’re in Kirumba Village, Lwengo District and we’re visiting farmer Mourice Mujuni and his wife Nakavuma

Working hard together the grow a variety of crops and keep livestock but their main income comes from their coffee.

They were both teachers at a local school but after teaching for 16 years Mourice decided to quit his teaching job and concentrate on their farming activities.

In this farm we are learning about:

1. How to improve Coffee yield through Stumping

2. Boosting family nutrition through OFSP

3. Financial literacy

4. Setting up a kitchen garden

Shamba Shape Uganda Season 1 - Shamba Shape Up Series 1 - Ep 18(UG): Dairy cows, Bananas and Orange-Fleshed sweetpotato

Welcome to Shamba Shape Up Uganda!

This week we’re in Kiroba Village in Kamuli District and we are here to meet farmer Naomi Namugombe

Naomi and her husband have a couple of enterprises on their 40 acres. They have 6 cows, 25 pigs, 3 goats and they grow bananas, maize, sweet potatoes. Oh! They also grow bracharia and some fodder trees

We want to find out how they do this and what challenges they have on their Shamba.

In this farm we learn about:

1) DAIRY:

• Mastitis Causes and treatment

• Artificial Insemination (Girolando breeds)

2) BANANAS: Cleaning suckers and how to deal with termites

3) OFSP: Introduction to Orange-fleshed sweetpotato and products

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