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A Guide to Growing Cabbages

Mix one wheelbarrow of soil to another of decomposed manure. Mix 50g of DAP in that mixture in order to enhance root establishment. Fill the mixture in pots and put one seed per pot. Arrange the pots in order and cover them with grass. Water every morning. Remove the grass after a week or upon germination. Spray the seedlings with a mixture of 1ml of cypermethrin and 5g of mancozeb with a  1litre sprayer. Spraying is done once per week in order to protect the seedlings from fungal diseases and pests. Seedlings are ready for transplanting after three weeks. Transplanting in the evening is ideal in order to avoid the hot temperatures of the afternoon.

 

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How farmers can avoid buying fake agro-inputs

Counterfeit pesticides are something Deus Kamugisha, a farmer from Kabale, had been struggling with for a long time. So, he decided to come to Kampala to buy directly from agro-chemical dealers. Counterfeit pesticides are something Deus Kamugisha, a farmer from Kabale, had been struggling with for a long time. So, he decided to come to Kampala to buy directly from agro-chemical dealers. “I made sure that every package was sealed in my presence,” he recalls. “Among the purchases were 50 boxes of Mancozeb for my tomatoes. I entrusted the packages to a courier and returned to Kabale.” Unknown to him, the courier has liaised with unscrupulous dealers. The boxes were opened in Lyantonde, 220km from Kampala, and the drugs were exchanged for fake ones. Then, the packages resealed.