Farming Tips

Kid-rearing  Kidding area in the barn should be clean with dry bedding (grass).  The doe may be kept in the kidding area…

“Justlike we plan to grow food for human consumption, we must do the same for animals,” says livestock farmer Brian Natwijuka. He says the…

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…