Mango and pawpaw fruit tree field in Kyegegwa town council, Kyegegwa District (Aine Amon)
Mangoes (mangifera indica) integrated with pawpaw (carica papaya) on farm is a sustainable land management practice promoted by farmers in Kyeggwa District with the aim of producing for commercial purposes and soil fertility improvement. It is normally established on a one acre piece of land individually owned by the farmer. The varieties grown are mainly high breed grafted tree in nature that were supplied to the farmer by the area local government project aimed at scaling up fruit farming and eradication of poverty among the farming community.
The fruit tree farm is normally established on a gentle sloping area. In this area, due to over-cultivation, the soils where previously exposed to both wind and water erosion and degradation by heavy sunshine especially during the dry season. To address this, the farmer allowed weeds to grow under the trees which he slashed and left them to work as mulch material that protected the soils from erosion, moisture loss and fertility boost. Establishment of the plantation started with designation and enclosure of the area with a barbed wire to protect the establishments from free grazing goats and cattle, playing children and thieves. This was followed by clearing of shrubs and grasses, making of planting basins of dimensions 2×2 feet and application of manure a month prior to the planting of seedlings. The basin is made at a spacing of 8×8 meters from each other and on planting an alternating mango to pawpaw tree pattern is established in the garden. Shrub sticks are then used to build an enclosure around the fruit seedlings to further protect it from intruders that may pass through the barbed wire fence. Maintenance activities are quite laborious and recurrent, they include; daily irrigation of the seedlings in the dry season until they are a meter plus, spraying of insecticides and fungi on a weekly basis, pruning, harvesting and weeding. The activities are recurrent and require the farmer to employ two men to aid on the farm. The farmer faces challenges of snakes, rodents and birds that eat the fruits and therefore he needs to be always on alert when harvesting fruits.
Establishment costs per acre of the orchard is relatively expensive, one hundred sixty (160) mangoes and pawpaw tree seedlings valued at USD 123.2 where supplied to the farmer by local government for planting. The following activities were done to set up the technology:
- 4 men for the to fencing work,
- Clearing the land
- Preparing planting basins
- Planting the seedling which took them 5 days,
- Purchasing manure 20 sacks all those costed USD 304.3.
The maintenance activities, done at the farm include applying insecticides and fungicides on a weekly basis plus ring weeding.
The farm is maintained at average cost of USD 410.9 up to the fruiting stage, beyond which a well grown mango tree plant on harvest produces averagely between sixty (60) and eighty (80) mango fruits whereas for the pawpaw it produces between 20 and 30 respectively. This earns the farmer close to USD 1183 each harvest of the two seasons in the year which is significantly worth the farmer’s efforts.
الموقع: Kyegegwa town, Western Region, اوغندا
عدد مواقع تنفيذ التقنيةالتي تم تحليلها: 2- 10 مواقع
انتشار التقنية: يتم تطبيقها في نقاط محددة/ تتركز على مساحة صغيرة
تاريخ التنفيذ: 2013
نوع التقديم
| تحديد المدخلات | الوحدة | الكمية | التكاليف لكل وحدة (دولار أمريكي) | إجمالي التكاليف لكل مدخل (دولار أمريكي) | % من التكاليف التي يتحملها مستخدمو الأراضي |
| العمالة | |||||
| Clearing the land | Man acre | 5,0 | 60000,0 | 300000,0 | 100,0 |
| Digging plant basins and planting | Man acre | 5,0 | 90000,0 | 450000,0 | 100,0 |
| المواد النباتية | |||||
| Fruit tree seedlings | Seedlings | 160,0 | 2000,0 | 320000,0 | |
| الأسمدة والمبيدات الحيوية | |||||
| Organic manure application | Sacks | 20,0 | 18000,0 | 360000,0 | 100,0 |
| إجمالي تكاليف إنشاء التقنية | 1'430'000.0 | ||||
Farmer earns income from selling fruits from his garden. Therefore he does not sell his crop produce, saves it for food.
Farmer says he harvest and consumes a fruit on daily basis hence improving his and family's health status.
Underneath the trees is a permanent soil cover which maintains soil moisture enabling trees to resist drought.
