Series 2 - Ep 8: Market, GreenHouse, AgroForestry and Transport
Series 2 - Ep 8: Market, GreenHouse, AgroForestry and Transport
Welcome to Shamba Shape Up Uganda!
This week we’re trying something different, we’re going to start at the end and finish at the beginning! Yeah who wants to do things the same way all the time! So, join us as we journey backwards, From the end, right back to the beginning!
Confused? Keep watching and we promise you won’t be!
Today we’re in Wakiso, to the north of Kampala. Being close to such a large city brings advantages – one of these, as we’ll see later, is access to markets.
And we’re visiting Christopher Nsamba, and his wife Annette. Also helping out on the farm, Christopher’s son, Ronald.
Christopher and his wife have been married for 20 years. He is the chairman of Namulonge association of horticulture farmers. His son Ronald is the administrator. The group has 30 active members. They exist mainly for information sharing.
To grow his vegetables all year round, they have employed small scale irrigation technologies like drip irrigation and sprinkler irrigation. He thinks climate change is quite a challenge.
They have a collection centre for the vegetable and fruits to be cleaned, sorted and weighed. Farmer trainings also often happen in the collection centre. They have a charcoal cooling room to store the vegetables in.
Another challenge is transportation to the market. They use boda bodas which often leads to damages to the produce.
The green house has bacterial wilt. Some of the tomato plants are drying up as a result and the green pepper often turns yellow or red.
Let’s go and Learn about:
1. How to plan your planting according to what the market needs.
2. How a greenhouse can boost productivity.
3. Why keeping the trees is a good idea and how Honey Bees can actually earn more money than cutting the trees to grow maize.
4. How to transport all this extra produce to market safely.
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