Series 1 - Ep 14: Coffee, Maize, Push & pull and Passion fruits
Series 1 - Ep 14: Coffee, Maize, Push & pull and Passion fruits
Welcome to Shamba Shape Up Uganda!
We’re in Walukoto village in Mayuge and we’re visiting Hussein Buyiima and his family on their farm. This is a very close-knit family!
At 54 years of age, Hussein is the proud owner of 11 acres. In addition, he also takes care of his father’s 8-acre farm.
Hussein grows many crops: coffee, cocoa, passion fruits, maize, beans and cassava tomatoes, green pepper and avocados.
His wife Hajira is exclusively in charge of the cassava and beans. The rest is on Hussein, but the crops that he really likes are coffee and passion fruit and maize is of course a must for food security, so we’ll focus on these three crops!
In this farm we are learning about:
1) Coffee harvest + checking market prices on app.
2) Maize varieties
3) Maize push and pull method against fall armyworm
4) Passion fruit: Pests and diseases
markets coffee Pest and Diseases push-pull maize PassionFruit