Farming Tips

By Herbert Musoke Feeds take up about 70% of a poultry farm’s expenditure. Therefore, farmers have been advised to take a keen interest in …

By HERBERT MUSOKE       Feeds take about 70% of a poultry farm expenditure. Therefore, farmers have been advised to take keen interest about the quality …

By Joshua Kato         Ordinarily, the insects and worms that Tenwya fondly carries are scary to most Ugandans. But to him, this is money, it …

By Herbert Musoke    When you plan to venture into poultry as a business, you need to understand its profitability depends on how you handle …

By Agnes Nantambi   Makerere University Don Prof. Samuel Majalija has embarked on the campaign to promot clean piggery farming through the use of the Indigenous …

In Uganda, most mushroom farmers grow these edible fungi in a mixture of lime, cotton husks, rice straw (or any other agricultural residue). A …

Water hyacinth is one of the most noxious weeds in tropical and subtropical regions, and many attempts have been made to eliminate or control …

Free access to fresh cow manure permits pigs to avoid deficiencies in B-complex vitamins which may result if only the usual 5% or less …

Banana peels have high (over 75 percent) moisture content, which help animals to stay hydrated. They are a good source of minerals, especially potassium …

Sweet potato residues (vines, non-marketable roots and peels) are some of the most widely used residues as pig feed in Uganda. One major negative …