Farming Uganda is a free, independent guide to growing food and keeping animals on a small farm in Uganda. It is a publishing project, not a company, a cooperative or an input dealer. Nothing on this site is for sale, and no seed, fertiliser, drug or brand is promoted here in exchange for payment.
Why the site exists
A great deal of agricultural writing about Uganda is aimed at people who already farm at scale. It assumes a tractor, a soil laboratory, a spraying contract and a budget that survives a bad season. That advice is not wrong, but it does not describe the situation most Ugandan households are actually in: a garden of an acre or less, hand tools, seed saved from last season, a few chickens, and no margin for a failed planting.
This site is written for that situation. Every guide assumes hand labour, a small budget, and the need for the harvest to feed a household before it earns anything.
How the guides are written
Uganda plants twice in most regions, and the calendar drives almost everything. So the guides are organised around the season rather than around theory: what to do before the first rains, what to do when the rains arrive late, what to do when they stop early, and what to do with the crop once it is out of the ground.
Where a recommended practice costs real money, we say so plainly. Where a cheaper version does most of the same job, we describe that too, along with what you give up by choosing it. Where the honest answer is that it depends on your soil, your altitude or your variety, we say that instead of inventing a number.
What we do not claim
We are not an accredited, certified or registered advisory body, and we hold no licence to give agronomic or veterinary advice. Nothing here replaces your district agricultural or veterinary officer, and for animal disease, chemical dosing and anything involving human health you should speak to a qualified person locally.
The contact details on this site are placeholders. If you have reached this page in a copy of the site that is still under construction, please treat the phone number and email address as examples rather than working channels.
Corrections
Farming advice ages, and local conditions vary more than any article can capture. If something here is wrong, out of date, or simply does not match what happens in your area, we would rather hear about it than leave it standing.