Post Harvest
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 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 25: Harvest&Post-Harvest losses, Dairycow management, EPC - Recap

Welcome to a special edition of Shamba shape up, where we are going to visit some of the shamba we have shaped up over the last few months & remind ourselves some of the things we learned, especially during this time we are getting ready to harvest.