Welcome to Kyakuwa Farm, Seguku village, Wakiso

district. Uganda

Urban farming for food security,

income generation and environmental

sustainability: a case of Kyakuwa

Farm, Seguku village, Wakiso district

Dr. Jolly Kabirizi

Brief information on Jolly Kabirizi

Employed by the National

Agricultural Research

Organization (NARO)

Principal Research Officer

–PhD (Forage Science)

Smallholder peri-urban

farmer

Capacity building.

Location: Seguku village, Wakiso district

Total land area: 0.3 acres

The farm was established in 1990

Sources of labour: 1 hired person & family labour

Our motto “A farmer’s foot is the best manure”

Contact us:

P.O. Box 31153, Kampala, Uganda

Tel: +256 777912716

E-mail: jmkabirizi@gmail.com

Website: http://www.jollykabirizi.com

Kyakuwa Farm

“Walk the talk”

Supplement family income

Employment for community

Research purposes

Demonstrate simple technologies on

commercial urban farming

Source of improved dairy cattle breeds

Provide high quality milk to improve nutrition of

the community.

.

Major reasons for farming

Major farm enterprises

1. Dairy unit (zero grazing system)

2. Recycle farm waste into livestock feeds

3. Vegetable production with irrigation

4. Solar drying (vegetables, fruits and feed blocks)

5. Small-scale fish farming (catfish)

6. Production of fodder & fruit tree seedlings

7. Capacity building of stakeholders

8. Manure production

9. Ten housing units for renting

Fish pond

Dairy unit Vegetables grown in a

green house

NWSC Tap

water

Water tank

Kyakuwa Farm: An example of crop-livestock-fish integration

Manure & Urine

Crop residues

Water

Project 1: Dairy cattle unit

10 crossbred dairy cows

Main feed resources

Fresh grasses (e.g. elephant grass)

Crop residues (maize stover)

Conserved forages (grass hay and silage)

Supplements

Fresh and conserved fodder tree foliage

Brewer’s mash (supplied by Uganda Breweries),

Crop residues (banana peels etc)

Commercial and homemade feed blocks

Daily feeding programme at Kyakuwa Farm Time Feed resources offered to the cows

6.00am

(Milking)

Livestock nutrient feed blocks, dairy meal or

brewer’s mash mixed with banana peels

7.00am-

4.30pm

A mixture of grass hay, fresh Napier grass

or/and silage supplemented with Calliandra

or Gliricidia leaf hay

Brewer’s mash mixed with banana peels (2

kgs per cows)

4.30pm

(Milking)

Same as at 6.00am

5.00pm-

6.00am

Same as at 7.00-4.30pm

Water and mineral blocks are available all the time

Measures taken to maintain a clean

environment

Manure is removed every 2 hours, treated with

Indigenous Micro-organisms (IMO) & kept in a

covered pit.

Part of the manure is sold

Farm waste is recycled into feed blocks.

A disinfectant (Jezi) is used to keep away flies.

Garbage is collected every Saturday

Tobacco plants are planted around the farm to

keep away snakes.

1. Provide adequate (quality & quantity) feeds.

2. Cull unproductive cows.

3. Vaccinate against diseases

4. Maintain a clean environment.

5. Provide good environment to cows

6. Visit fellow farmers and learn from them

7. Attend farmer workshops

8. Keep records.

9. Motivate workers.

10.Manage your time well

Tips to a profitable dairy cattle enterprise

Rubber cattle mat

Increases milk yield---encourages cows to lie and

ruminate for longer

Reduces veterinary bills---supports cows as they

get up & down, reducing leg injuries & abrasions

Reduces incidence of mastitis---keeps cows clean

& dry for longer, improving udder & milk hygiene

Project 2: Recycling farm waste into

dairy cattle Nutrient feed blocks

The blocks are made out of

feed refusals (dry grass or

stovers), agro-industrial by

products (molasses, maize

bran, cotton seed cake,

premix) & cassava flour

(binder).

They contain energy,

protein, vitamins, minerals--

A-5 kg feed block costs

Ushs 5,000

Project 3: Small-scale fish farming

Water is changed once

every week and used to

irrigate vegetables and

fruit/fodder tree seedlings.

Main feed is

commercial fish

pellets.

Matures in 8-10

months depending

on management

The cost of a 1 kg

catfish is 8,000-

10,000

Project 4: Small-scale vegetable production

Vegetables are grown

throughout the year in

a green house and pots

Vegetables are dried in

a solar drier

Vegetables in a green house

Project 5: Processing vegetables, fruits and

livestock feed blocks

Vegetables

Feed blocks

Simple

Solar drier

Processing vegetables into shelf-stable products

Project 6: Production of fodder & fruit tree

seedlings and Brachiaria grass splits

Fruit & fodder tree (calliandra) seedlings are

raised during the dry season under irrigation

Produce over 10,000 fruit & 10,000 fodder tree

seedlings per season

Seedlings are sold to farmers

Brachiaria (Kifuta)

splits

Raising mango

fruit tree

seedlings

(August 2015)

Makerere University

students of Gender

studies

Students from Gayaza

High School Camp

Project 10: Capacity building

University

internship students

feeding hay to

cattle

Students of Gayaza

High School

A group of 65 students attending an agricultural

school camp at Gayaza High School visited the

farm on 16th August 2015

A team of 12 policy

makers and

researchers from

Extension staff and

farmers from Hoima

district

The Ambassador of the Netherlands and Manager

of DFCU Bank visited the farm

Number of stakeholders trained at Kyakuwa farm (July

2014 to Sept 2015) by gender (total = 1,849)

650

687

170

340

Male (over 30 years) Female (over 30 years)

Pre-primary Youth (up to 30 years old)

Simple cost-benefit analysis of Kyakuwa Farm

(December 2014)

Item Quantity/

year

Rate (Ushs) Total/ year

(Ushs) x’000

Expenditures (average)

Hay (kgs) 14444 400 5,777,600

Fresh grass 12 600,000 7,200,000

Brewer's mash (ton) 24 90,000 2,160,000

Gliricidia hay (kgs) 6000 100 600,000

Banana peels (sac) 360 2,000 720,000

Hired labour (mths) 12 200,000 2,400,000

Disinfectant 24 7000 168,000

Molasses (jerricans) 36 10000 360,000

Spot-on to control

ticks (L)

30 35,000 1,050,000

Drugs, veterinary

cost & AI (months)

12 60,000 720,000

Simple cost-benefit analysis of Kyakuwa Farm

(December 2014)

Item Quantity/

year

Rate (Ushs) Total/ year

(Ushs)

Expenditures (average) continued

Piped water

(NWSC)

12 120,000 1,440,000

Electricity 12 150,000 1,800,000

Fuel 30 3,500 105,000

Raising seedlings

(per season)

2 2,000,000 4,000,000

URA taxes on

houses

1 2,200,000 2,200,000

Maintenance of the

houses

10 150,000 1,500,000

Miscellenous 2,000,000

Item Quantity/

year

Rate (Ushs) Total (Ushs)

Sales (per year)

Milk sales (from 3

cows/milking)

23500 1,600 37,600,000

Nutrient feed blocks 2400 2,000 4,800,000

Sale of bulls/culled cows 2 2,000,000 4,000,000

Sale of grafted fruit trees 10,000 2,000 20,000,000

Sale of calliandra

seedlings

20,000 500 10,000,000

Rent from10 housing

units (per year) x 12

120 200,000 24,000,000

Total income/year 100,400,000 Average Net profit per

year (2014)

65,800,000

Simple cost-benefit analysis of Kyakuwa Farm

(December 2014)

Labour, fuel & time saving technologies to

improve farm productivity

Motorised forage choppers

Small-scale hammer mill for grinding maize

grain and cobs and chopping fodder

Rain water harvesting

Pumps to pumping water to and from the fish

ponds

Sprinkler irrigation for green house farming

Fuel saving (Biolite stove & Fireless cooker)

Conserved forages (hay and silage)

Gender friendly treadle pump used to:

Remove water from the fish pond

Irrigate crops

Costs Ushs 500,000

A fireless cooker

An insulated

basket capable

of maintaining a

temperature at

which food can

be cooked

It uses stored

heat to cook

food over a long

period of time

Fuel and time saving devices

Reduces cooking time

by over 50%

Bio-Lite Phone charging

Stove, an important

labour & fuel saving

device

No smoke

Saves on firewood

Reduces cooking

time Costs Ushs 175,000

BioLite – The Fire-Powered Cell Phone Charger

Labour & time saving forage choppers

Hand chopping:

Low output capacity,

Tedious & time consuming

Dangerous to the operator.

Simple forage choppers (Ushs 30,000-120,000)

Chops grass and grinds

maize grain and cobs

Requires 3 litres of fuel

to chop fodder for 8

dairy cows for 2 weeks

The machine reduces

chopping time by 30%

The cow consumes

more feed---more milk

Used to generate

income Simple hammer mill (Ushs 2.5 million)

Making use of a compound

to produce food: a big

bunch of banana harvested

from the compound

Other income generating activities

outside Kyakuwa Farm

Small-scale pig production

Camborough pig breed

A pig is the cleanest animal.

A pig keeper who understands management

practices will find it rewarding to keep pigs.

Pig weaner feed ration

Ingredients Maize

bran

Wheat

bran

Whole maize

Maize bran 77.7 0 0

Wheat bran 0 86.2 0

Whole maize 0 0 76

Fish meal 12 12 14

Bone ash 1.6 1.4 1.6

Cotton seed

cake

7 8.2 6.7

Lake shells 0.7 1.2 0.7

Salt 0.5 0.5 0.5

Vitamin Premix 0.5 0.5 0.5

Other activities

1. Banana plantation (2 acres)

2. Fodder production (2 acres of elephant grass)

3. Brachiaria (signal grass) for hay production

4. Small-scale forage seed production (Lablab)

Signal grass Signal grass hay

Silage making Lablab seed

Construction of a 30,000 litre

underground water harvesting tank using

a dam liner (Costs Ushs 2.5-3 million

1

2

3 4

2

A machine

used to join

a dam liner

Rain water harvesting

About 35,000 lts of water harvested per season

Sufficient for a family of 4 people keeping 2 cows

& drip irrigating 0.1 ha of cabbages for 3-4 mths.

Saves Ushs 50,0000-100,000/mnth on water

bills.

Family labour shifted to other farm activities.

Source of income through sale of water

Tank dimensions: (6 x 3 x 1.5m)

Tank capacity: 24-27m3

1. Eradicate extreme hunger and poverty

– Disseminate improved technologies to

improve household food security & income.

– Introduced income generating projects to

resource poor households.

2. Achieve Universal Primary Education

– Equip school children with skills on small-

scale income generating activities.

Contribution of Kyakuwa Farm to the

community

Students of St. Peter

Primary School (UPE),

Seguku doing

practicals on vegetable

production

School gardening

at St. Peter Primary

School (UPE),

Seguku

3. Ensure equal rights for men and women

– Sensitize men, women & youth on gender

roles.

4. Reduce child mortality

– The farm supplied 2 litres of milk/day (free) to

2 babies (now 7 months old).

– A source of high quality milk for children.

5. Reduce maternal mortality

– Sensitize women on nutrition and family

planning

Some of the children who have benefited from

our milk

78 year old Mrs

Kigozi, a widow is a

beneficiary of our

dairy enterprise

Daniel (17 years) and Joshua (5 years) Isabirye of

Seguku village are beneficiaries of our milk since

birth

Important contacts for agricultural inputs

Inputs Telephone number

Underground water

harvesting tanks

Agrines: 0702407168

Molasses Salongo: 0785147251

Biolite stoves Kironde Rd. Muyenga

0700137550

Brewers’ waste Kabugo: 0712957418

Silage packing bags 0772369343

Treadle pumps Davis & Shirtliff, Jinja road

Forage choppers Brazafric: 0772602273 and

Agrines: 0702407168

Disinfectant (Jezi) Mr. Nyonyintono:

0752597750

Climate change and climate variability

Poisoning of animals

Unreliable Artificial insemination services

High cost of inputs

Adulterated drugs

Poor quality feed ingredients (maize bran---)

Limited land

Labour availability

Major challenges

Kyakuwa Farm has contributed to household

food and nutrition security; environmental

sustainability and poverty alleviation in resource

poor households within and outside Seguku

community.

Use the little space you have to make money

Conclusion

Family members

Seguku Community

Farming Community

Collaborators

Acknowledgements

Thank you

for

listening