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Transplanting Tomatoes

You’ve sowed your tomato seeds, and now the seedlings stand like little green soldiers in your window, patiently waiting to be liberated from their pots and plunked into a warm bed of earth. What they don’t realize is that conditions are harsh in the outside world. Between desiccating winds, the heat of the sun, and armies of bugs and diseases that may be waiting in ambush, there is much that can…

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#Growing Tomatoes in Uganda

Tomato Farming Journey

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The Enterprise Cost Benefit Analysis

Cost Benefit Analysis is essential for farm budgeting and planning enabling farmers to effectively compare and determine the profitability of various commodities; thereby creating an opportunity to identify and venture into farming as an enterprise based on current data. Cost Benefit Analysis, also known as Gross Margin Analysis is a tool for determining agricultural enterprises profitability by…

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Planning, Preparation for the New Season.

“A plan is of little value unless it serves as a guide for action within changing conditions. Therefore, if plans are to be effective and helpful as a guide, they must be evaluated continuously and revised to fit current and expected future conditions (looking at the outcome and progress).” Success in Farming just like any business venture or monetized venture is greatly dependent on a well…

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Ginger Production Quick Tips

Propagation Ginger is vegetatively propagated from small sections of the rhizome, called sets. Sets are produced by cutting a small 3–6 cm from a living rhizome. Each piece should possess at least one living bud which will produce shoots. The ginger sets can be per-sprouted in pots or nursery seed beds by covering with a layer of soil or they can be planted directly at the final planting…

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The 6 AgriBusiness Tips

Running a successful farm for this case an Enterprise takes more than just hard work – you need to recognize where you are today and anticipate what’s up ahead. While every farm’s unique, there are some key things that separate the successful ones from those that aren’t. These tips will help keep your agribusiness succeeding today, and in the long term. Work Hard and Smart It sounds obvious but…

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AgroNotes Series 11: Cassava Production

Enterprise Brief: Cassava is a perennial woody shrub with an edible root, which grows in tropical and subtropical areas of the world. Cassava is a calorie-rich vegetable that contains plenty of carbohydrates and key vitamins and minerals. Cassava is a good source of vitamin C, thiamine, riboflavin, and niacin. The leaves, which are also edible if a person cooks them or dries them in the sun, can…

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AgroNotes Series 10: Piggery

Enterprise Brief:The largest economy in Uganda enjoys pork on a daily basis in the different parts of the country and this has made piggery a more lucrative venture and many people are earning big from it. The increasing number of people in the country has seen a kilogram of pork ranging between 8000 to 20,000 shillings and this entirely depends on where you buy it.Pig production is like any…

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AgroNotes Series 9: Peanut Production

Enterprise Brief: The peanut, also known as the groundnut, a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics, being important to both small and large commercial producers. It is classified as both a grain legume due to its high oil content, an oil crop. World annual production of shelled peanuts was 44 million tonnes in 2016, led by China with…

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AgroNotes Series 8: Potato Production

Enterprise Brief: The potato is a starchy tuber of the plant Solanum tuberosum and is a root vegetable native to the Americas, with the plant itself being a perennial in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Can be propagated vegetatively by planting tubers, pieces of tubers cut to include at least one or two eyes, or cuttings, a practice used in greenhouses for the production of healthy seed…

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AgroNotes Series 7: Soybean Production

Enterprise Brief: Soybean, soy bean, or soya bean (Glycine max) is a species of legume native to East Asia, widely grown for its edible bean, which has numerous uses. Traditional unfermented food uses of soybeans include soy milk, from which tofu and tofu skin are made. Fermented soy foods include soy sauce, fermented bean paste. Fat-free (defatted) soybean meal is a significant and cheap…

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AgroNotes Series 6: Sunflower Production

Enterprise Brief: Sunflower also, Helianthus annuus, whose round flower heads in combination with the ligules look like the sun is a very important crop for vegetable oil production in Uganda. It has become a cash crop especially with the introduction of hybrids and their popularization. Before blooming, sunflower plants tilt during the day to face the sun in order to gain more sunlight for…

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AgroNotes Series 5: Rice Production

Enterprise Brief: Rice is the seed of the grass species Oryza sativa (Asian rice) or less commonly Oryza glaberrima (African rice). The name wild rice is usually used for species of the genera Zizania and Porteresia, both wild and domesticated, although the term may also be used for primitive or uncultivated varieties of Oryza. As a cereal grain, domesticated rice is the most widely consumed…

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AgroNotes Series 4: Bean Growing

Enterprise Brief: Most of the foods we call “beans”, “legumes”, “lentils” and “pulses” belong to the same family, Fabaceae (“leguminous” plants), but are from different genera and species, native to different homelands and distributed worldwide depending on their adaptability. Many varieties are eaten both fresh (the whole pod, and the immature beans may or may not inside) or shelled (immature…

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Quiz Time: Ask Us About Tomato Growing

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Agribusiness Quiz Time

Are you growing Tomatoes ? Ask the Quiz and Share Experience!The Agribusiness Guy Quiz Moments

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