Daily Monitor
Saturday May 22 2021
Summary
It is also good to have an idea about the acreage of your farm. This can be established by hiring a surveyor who should be able to provide you with a map so that you can then put up boundaries of your farm.
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No matter how small your farm is you ought to have a sound layout for it. You should have an area for your house and store for keeping your tools and harvested crops as well as some space for livestock and crops. You might also need a drying yard for some of your harvested crops.
Strategies farmers can adopt to sustain coffee production
Saturday May 22 2021
Jacqueline Tukdel inspects her young coffee crop at Peya Village, Ongaco Sub-county, Omoro District. Photos | Michael J Ssali
Summary
Farmers are now paying more attention to good agronomic practices since they have formed groups in which members have set rules directed at producing a clean and marketable crop.
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Last year Uganda registered a remarkable increase in coffee exports. Our June 2020 coffee export performance figures from the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) in the financial year 2019/2020 indicated that we set an all-time new record of 5.10 million 60-kilogramme bags.
Export earnings also remarkably went up, bringing in $496m (Shs1.79 trillion). In the previous year, we exported 4.2 million 60 – kilogrammes bags, worth $415.1m. For a very long time, Uganda’s annual coffee production had stagnated at around 3 million 60-kg bags.