Joseph Okoth

Letters

Manage soil and water with trash lines

Trash lines are running heaps of plant biomass or residue materials erected across the slope along...

Guest Writer

Maximise productivity through water flow management

There are simple ways through which you can manage ground water flow to increase productivity on...

Guest Writer

Make your hill productive with contour farming

Contours are lines of the same height on ground and represented on a map. Contour farming...

Columnists

Why Ox-ploughing is popular in parts of Uganda

An ox-plough is a single mouldboard plough that is hulled mainly by oxen, although camels, donkeys...

Guest Writer

Insure your farming investment through cover cropping

Cover cropping is the growing of crops that provide a soil cover either during or after...

Business

Reap big from mixing farming with forestry

Agroforestry is the practice of growing trees and/or keeping livestock on the same field at the...

Guest Writer

Enormous benefits that come with mulching your field

Mulching is one of the long known indigenous practices through which a farmer can increase agricultural...