Coffee farmers with stumped coffee trees in Rwenzori region will benefit from free organic fertilizers.
Uganda Coffee Development Authority-UCDA launched a campaign to stump out old coffee trees and rehabilitate abandoned coffee gardens across the country to help increase productivity.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries through UCDA has now delivered 17, 033 bags of fertilizer to benefit farmers in the 10 districts of Rwenzori region including Kasese, Kamwenge, Bunyangabu, Kabarole, Kyenjojo and Ntoroko among others.
The organic fertilizer has macronutrients required for coffee plants especially when they are stumped.
Mr.Emmanuel Tumwizere, the Regional UCDA Coordinator, says that they are in a campaign to motivate farmers to boost their production and productivity.
He mentioned that their research established that a stumped coffee plant produces three times as much yield as the farmer can get from an old tree.
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Tumwizere told Kasese guide radio this morning that coffee production in the region has been going down because many farmers are stuck with old trees left behind by generations.
He says UCDA is strengthening its field teams to increase agronomic knowledge. Julius Baluku, the Kasese District Production and Marketing Officer, says coffee production in the district remains low attributing it to old coffee trees. He notes that an old tree can produce half a kilogram and yet a rejuvenated tree can give more than three kilograms. Mr. Julius on coffee…..
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