Farming Tips

Zero-grazing is when animals are fed from a small unit without allowing them to go out and graze. In Uganda, it is mainly used …

Commercial layers can lay between 240-310 eggs in a lifetime.  However, the number of eggs laid depends on several other factors including the feeding …

There are plenty of ways to repurpose spent grain, but one of the most creative is to use it to make your own bricks. …

By Umar Nsubuga There are farmers growing cashew nuts in Uganda. However, most of the nuts sold in Uganda are indeed imported from other …

It is true that during the rainy season farmers are either celebrating the rains or lamenting about their negative effects. In fact, unless farmers …

There are several obvious differences between sick or unwell cattle and health cattle. You look at the facial expression of the animal and it …

On many occasions, farmers wait until it is too late, then they panic as pasture starts drying up. Although there is nothing you can …

Unless they are cared for properly, half of our newborn piglets that die do so in the first 14 days after birth. This is …

Garlic prefers well-drained, fertile soils with plenty of organic matter. In Uganda we have two seasons of garlic farming February/march planting and harvesting in July …

Rice After 110-120 days, the harvest should be 4,000-5,000kg per hectare when 80-85% of the grains are straw coloured and the grains in the …