Series 13 - Ep 21: Passion Fruit, Bee Keeping, Chicken Brooding, Organic Manure and Financial Literacy
Series 13 - Ep 21: Passion Fruit, Bee Keeping, Chicken Brooding, Organic Manure and Financial Literacy
Welcome to Shamba Shape Up!
This week we are Western county of Bungoma visiting farmer Fred Okoth.
Fred is a recent graduate of accounting. Educated and ambitious. Along with his brother and cousin he is taking over his uncle’s farm. His aunt still lives and work on it but he is managing it.
Currently he is growing maize and beans, sweet potatoes, cassava and traditional vegetables as well as grass for cows. But he needs some help with his brooding and passion fruit management.
Let’s learn more:
- Vermiculture: Production of organic manure through earthworms.
- Chicken Brooding: How to look after hatched Chickens and learn best practices for brooding Chickens.
- How to get the best price for your products in the market.
- Integrating passion fruit with green manure, cover crops and bee keeping.