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A field agronomist demonstrating benefits of planting early maturing crops in Parego village-Aluru sub-county, Moyo district. By Araba Kalsum Moyo Experts in Moyo district have advised farmers to use the little rains received in the first rainy season to start
A field agronomist demonstrating benefits of planting early maturing crops in Parego village-Aluru sub-county, Moyo district.
By Araba Kalsum
Moyo
Experts in Moyo district have advised farmers to use the little rains received in the first rainy season to start planting early maturing, drought and disease tolerant crops such as maize, groundnuts, tomatoes and others, saying the rains are not predictable.
Mugisha Alex an extension worker at Apiviva limited says farmers should be planting by now since it’s approaching April.
“We started receiving some bit of rains in February and it has continued raining so farmers are expected to be ready by now because when one sees the time, we are almost approaching April. Farmers should have planned what they should do for the first season because traditionally our first season starts in mid-March and ends around late May or sometimes early June whereby our second season starts late July, early August and continues up to early December or late November,” says Mugisha.
Meanwhile Uzadiyo Margret sales agronomist within Moyo town advises farmers to plant early maturing and drought resistant crops when cut short by the rains.
“We have now seen that we have received the rains, and the rains for first season normally don’t take long it takes like two to three months so I hope at this time we have started planting our crops. Crops like maize, beans, cassava and g-nuts because by that time I will expect our crops to be ready for harvesting when we shall start receiving little rains from mid-June” Uzadiyo noted.
However Dravuga Justine the field agronomist Multitek Investment encourages farmers who are planning to start preparing their lands for cultivation.
“And for those who have not yet started planting, the rain we anticipated to be up to the mid of March or can prolong up to May so we encourage farmers as the rain continues, we don’t know how far it will go but being ready is always the best so prepare your land because early land preparation and timely planting will help you avoid the weather changes,” Dravuga explained.