Newsletter – Capacity strengthening and equipping of silage hub for silage block development

cg.contactjmkabirizii@gmail.comen_US
cg.contributor.centerNational Agricultural Research Organisation - NAROen_US
cg.contributor.centerNational Agricultural Research Organisation, National Livestock Resources Research Institute - NARO-NaLIRRIen_US
cg.contributor.crpCGIAR Research Program on Roots, Tubers and Bananas - RTBen_US
cg.contributor.funderNot Applicableen_US
cg.contributor.project-lead-instituteInternational Potato Center - CIPen_US
cg.coverage.countryUGen_US
cg.coverage.end-date2021-10-20en_US
cg.coverage.regionEastern Africaen_US
cg.coverage.start-date2021-08-02en_US
cg.subject.agrovocsweet potatoesen_US
cg.subject.agrovocsweetpotatoen_US
dc.creatorKabirizi, Jollyen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-21T18:46:10Z
dc.date.available2021-12-21T18:46:10Z
dc.description.abstractOne of the major challenges that might limit adoption of the technology is availability of sweetpotato vines throughout the year. Currently, there is a shortage of sweetpotato vines because farmers are starting to plant sweetpotatoes. This means that youth will not have a reliable source of vines during the next 3-4 months when farmers start harvesting the roots. Livestock farmers have a challenge of getting sweetpotato vine silage. A farmer in Wakiso district informed me that he paid Ushs 750 per kg of sweetpotato vine silage. He said that he found it cheaper to buy sweetpotato vine silage at that price than buying poor quality maize bran (mixed with sawdust or sand) for his pigs. He said that he will need 3 kgs/pig/day of sweetpotato vine silage (Ushs 2,250) compared to 4 kgs/pig/day of maize bran (Ushs 4,800). He also said that his pigs grower faster when they are fed sweetpotato vine silage than when they are fed on maize bran and weeds. He supplements maize bran with weeds which he picks from neighbours’ fields. He is able to sell castrated pigs within four months at an average weight of 50 kgs.en_US
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dc.identifierhttps://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/downloadmelspace/hash/15cce130a2412db4eb0e9d769f3c4ca4/v/71ea43bd5007587352f2bf8f3d659d59en_US
dc.identifier.citationJolly Kabirizi. (4/11/2021). Newsletter – Capacity strengthening and equipping of silage hub for silage block development.en_US
dc.identifier.statusOpen accessen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/66642
dc.languageenen_US
dc.rightsCC-BY-4.0en_US
dc.subjectsweetpotato silage productionen_US
dc.titleNewsletter – Capacity strengthening and equipping of silage hub for silage block developmenten_US
dc.typeNewsletteren_US
dcterms.available2021-11-04en_US

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