Liam Self Help Foundation

21/05/2023

Hello. I am requesting for help as I am working on a project that will cause food security and availability of clean drinking water within the rural communities of eastern Uganda.
Any donation towards this cause will be of great help.

Since people in rural Uganda are financially not well, they get hardships in buying food or even seeds that can be used for cultivation. Clean drinking water is also hard to get and people are forced to share water for domestic use with animals. The funds collected shall be used to buy land and set

21/05/2023

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Since people in rural Uganda are financially not well, they get hardships in buying food or even seeds that can be used for cultivation. Clean drinking water is also hard to get and people are forced to share water for domestic use with animals. The funds collected shall be used to buy land and set

19/04/2023

MISTAKES FARMERS MAKE

1.Poor Soil Management
Any Successful farmer will testify to the fact good soil guarantees a healthy beginning from planting to harvest.Therefore it is important farmers understand that farming in poor Soil is a recipe to failure & an invite to a number of complications.
Many vegetables especially Cabbage, Capsicum, Lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers and the exotic types are heavy feeders and will require plenty of manure in order to grow as expected. As such, it is very important to carry out soil tests before planting anything.

2. Purchasing Poor Quality Seeds
Another top mistakes New Farmers make in vegetables farming is planting of poor quality seeds. The truth is that poor seeds may not grow well or grow at all, some will become stunted if the manage to germinate.

While others may not produce healthy produce at all. Some produce scanty fruits.
Planting of traditional seeds are gradually fading away & improve seeds are coming up. It is advisable that Farmers generally, should go for hybrid seeds.This is because they have good yield

3. Poor Water Management
Just as you need water to survive, Plants also need to water in order to grow healhy.If you are inconsistent or are improperly watering your crop in a manner which may lead to crops not receiving enough water, your crop health will decrease or die.

Therefore Irrigation is very important for vegetable farming especially during dry season. Vegetables are more healthy, fresher during dry season if well irrigated. That is why dry season vegetable farming is the best in terms of commercial purposes.

Farmers that engage in farming this Season make 5 times the profit compare to raining season. It should be noted that vegetables farm are to be irrigated during raining season if there is shortage in rainfall or drought.

Keep in mind that vegetables need just the right amount of watering, over watering may lead to fruits Cracking or leafs dying. Make sure you make a path way for water to flow

18/04/2023

Liam Self Help Foundation is a local NGO which works in areas of community development through agriculture to become economically self-reliant.
Currently, our focus is on improving the viability of the agricultural sector as a whole with a particularly focus on increasing incomes from agriculture. We are providing capacity building to various actors along different agricultural value chains such as training farmers in farming as a business, promotion of food processing, output marketing, training farmers with different agronomist practices.
We have a very strong gender focus with a fully fledged gender program and have mainstreamed issues around the gender, environment and natural resources management in all our activities.