Coffee trees need a lot of potash, a lot of nitrogen, and a little phosphoric acid. Spread the fertilizer in a ring around each coffee tree, but be very careful not to put any on its trunk, branches or leaves.
As an agricultural researcher and academic, Joshua zake has always been fascinated with finding out answers for farmers ‘agricultural problems.
With a doctorate in environmental studies and natural resources from the university of natural resource and life science in vienna, Austria, and a bachelor’s in agriculture from makerere university, coupled with experience as a field officer and to manager at environmental alert agricultural challenges and solution have been much of his life. READ MORE
Uganda’s expenditure on research and development was 0.14% of its gross domestic product in 2014. This is one of the lowest in the world, according to the United Nations cultural organization UNESCO. But there are reasons for hope among the country’s researchers. The government set up the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation in 2016, and Ugandan universities have awarded record numbers of PhDs in the past two years. Many scientists from Uganda who studied health and agriculture in other countries have returned home to bring back expertise and train the next generation of researchers. READ MORE
