Alexander Agricultural & Environmental Advocacy

VARIETIES Uganda has a wide collection of passion fruits which consist of local purple, local yellow, kawanda hybrid selections, sweet granadila, introduced purple, yellow hybrid and hard shell varieties. Present popular varieties are the local purple and the kawanda hybrid. The local purple is highly preferred for local and export markers due to its purple fruits being rich in aroma and flavor. However, it has small fruits. Its also susceptible to magor passion fruit diseases. The local small purple variety does well in cool wet areas. The local yellow is highly valiable but generally has vigorous vine growth, large fruits comparebly more acidic than the local purple and its appreciable resistant to root rot diseases. It is presently used as a rootstock on graft otherwise susceptible superior fruiting commercial varieties The kawanda hybrid is a cross between mubende local yellow and yellow passion fruit. It has large purple fruits, with vigorous vine growth habit and its h...

MANGOES (MANGIFERA INDICA)  It is most widely distributed fruit in Uganda. Mango does well in areas which are too dry for other crops like oranges Propagation Fresh seeds are used to propagate root stalks and the seeds should be extracted from fruits.  Dry seeds don’t germinate, so in order to speed up the germination process, the kennel is cut off and the seed is removed from fibrous coating. Plant with the concave side facing downwards. Two types of seeds exists One is as result of fertilization thus will give rise to zygote seedlings. The other will give rise to many young seedlings thus is described as poly embryonic  and can be used to maintain characteristics, so are not a result of fertilization but are as a result of Apomixes .  Germination of seeds takes about 20 days and reaches length of 6 inches in 6 to 8 weeks and they will be 9 to 10 inches in about 10 to 12 weeks. Improved cultivators are propagated by grafting. There are...

WHY THERE IS NEED TO ADOPT AGROFORESTRY PRACTICES IN UGANDA A gro forestry is a land use practice involving deliberate   integration of woody perennials (Trees and shrubs) together with crops(annial and perennials crops)   and or animals (poultry, cattle, sheep, bees, fish, silk worms) on the same pieces of land in spatial of temporal arrangements for the benefits of man and his environment. It’s among the successful land use system that diversify and intensifies trees, crops and animals in a sustainable manner, as an old age practice, there is a lot to learn from the success traditional Agro forestry practices of the chagga and konso and java home gardens distributed in the world The Agro forestry research is being spearheaded by the world agro forestry centre ( WAC ) formally called International Centre for Research in Agro forestry (ICRAF ) with its headquarters located in Nairobi- Kenya and in Uganda its found t NAFFORI in Mukono Since 1997, ...

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Watching the smoke stacks choking the sky always makes me want to cry. I just can't help but wonder why The factories won't even try to find a safer, better way to put their poisonous waste away. The Stream where i played from Sewer as running as a child  in the ravine seemed so endless and wild. The water was clear and smelled so clean, It was so long ago that it seems like a dream. Now this stream is too dirty for my child. The water is scummy and smells vile. The place where I played seems so foul and decayed, And I shed the first tear as the dream starts to fade. Glimpse of a Polluted future where are the birds that used to dot the sky?, they are not here anymore, and I have to wonder why?. Where are the fish that used to swim in this stream?, I can't see them anymore. What does that mean? Where are the frogs that used to croak around this lake? I can't hear them anymore. There must be some mistake. I wish there was a clock whose hands I could rewind. We m...

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I come from Nature Hoping for a nice future I grow and grow with aims. But every one uses me for games. People say Oh! Good fresh air… But carpenters say strong wood for chair… I have lots of wishes to fulfil… But I die without seeing my pupil… To you I bend and bow… And plead with a voice so low… Please do not kill me… By turning me into coal… I’ll grow old till I reach my goal. By Wandera.S.Alexander African Food Security and Climate Army National Environmental Students Organization,Fika Afrika Advocacy Foundation The Hive Uganda, alexanderwander14@gmail.com,+256773545347/+256704942509 My Environment is my Responsibility Student for Nature