Series 1 - Ep 19: Coffee, Maize, Push & Pull, Banana and Beans
Series 1 - Ep 19: Coffee, Maize, Push & Pull, Banana and Beans
Welcome to Shamba Shape Up Uganda!
This week we’re in Katuba village in Iganga and we’re visiting Stephen Kakuma, a farmer and a trainer of good agronomic practices for coffee.
Stephen Kakuma is 46 years old and father of 10 children. He says he “needs” more. He has 7 acres of land on which he grows coffee (4 acres), bananas (1 acre) and maize (2 acres). He wants to increase his coffee to 7 acres so that he can go commercial. Last season he harvested about 1600kgs. Stephen has been trained by Café Africa and A2N and he is a trainer himself. But he still has challenges, especially with the black coffee twig borer. Although he knows what he has to do, the pest keeps coming back from his neighbours’ plantations. He talks to them but improvement is very slow. He also has an unknown pest that is affecting the bottom of the tree in the rainy season.
Wants to focus more on goats rather than dairy.
The other challenges on his farm include the banana bacterial wilt and FAW on the maize. He has 1 cow and three goats, but he wants to focus more on goats rather than dairy because they’re easier to keep.
In this farm we learn about:
1) Coffee: Pest and diseases plus raising awareness
2) Maize Fall Army Worm Push and Pull
3) Matoke management: Banana bacterial wilt
4) Iron rich bean varieties
FAW coffee Pest and Diseases push-pull fall-army-worm maize bananas beans