Hass Avocado is a variety said to be incredibly nutritious and containing potassium, heart-healthy acids as well as fibre. The variety with a dark green coloured rough surface matures after two years and a single mature tree can produce more than 500kg fruits under good agronomic management practices.
William Atube, the Bukatuube Sub County Chairman LCIII who also resides in Walumbe village, says residents must be given priority. He says the decision to allocate the residents land means that they were wrongly evicted from their land.
Maize lethal Necrosis Disease is mainly spread by a vector, transmitting the disease from plant to plant and field to field. Affected maize is identified as having progressively yellowing leaves and stems with rotting cobs and in some cases stunted plant growth.
Farmers growing crops on 5 to 20 acres of land in Busoga region have embraced organic crop agriculture skills acquired from different resource centres in the region.
A new form of organic fertilizer made out of agricultural residues like coffee husks and maize cobs is being introduced in Uganda at Ikulwe Agriculture Research Station in Mayuge district. Biochar can increase soil fertility, agricultural productivity and provide protection against some plant feeding and soil-borne diseases.
Jackson Wadanya, a Commissioner with the ministry of Fisheries says the BMU’s under the supervision of district fisheries officials were given up to six months to fight against illegal fishing but most of them have found illegal fishing lucrative and became part of the gang they were sent to fight.
Piggery farmers are no longer bothered to buy feeds for their pig stock. Rashid Naku, the Bwondha beach LC I chairperson says the pig population is twice more than the 4000 residents.
Busoga sub-region is pushing for a special National Agriculture Advisory Services - NAADS zone to increase farmers’ access to services. Busoga region is under Buginyanya NAADS zone comprising of 24 districts in Eastern Uganda.
More than 3000 encroachers on Bukaleba forest reserve in Mayuge district have rejected an eviction order issued by Mayuge district local leadership from a 15 hectare piece of land in Buyobo village.
Some residents had to travel a return journey of 16 kilometers to fetch safe water. But now, the new project under the National Water and Sewerage Cooperation-NWSC will end such days of agony.
This is contained in a 5th September letter written by Atube, which is addressed to Yusuf Senteza, the Mayuge LC Chairperson. He blames the dismal performance of the NAADs program in his sub county to the appointment of Kyayi.
The workers barricaded the road leading to the forest reserve with logs, blocking 6 trucks from Nile ply wood company in Jinja which, had come to ferry wood.
Farmers in Mayuge have adopted a new and efficient method to increase their ginger yields. The new method requires just a little space of land but gives high returns.
