How I turn a profit on an acre of land | Emma Naluyima | TEDxJohannesburgSalon

I wake up every morning toward the board meeting with my animals and plants on the farm and they said to me if you take care of us we shall take care of you all the way to the bank these I do dairy gently on my one acre farm that I practiced integrated farming many times we believe that for someone to be a farmer they need to have big chunks of land and it makes economic sense because of the high yields they get if they look after their farms very well unfortunately this is not the case in Uganda my country due to the cultural practices we have when someone dies all his belongings are shared by the rest of the family land inclusive I'll give you an example my husband whose father had 40 children and one-square-mile when he died my husband and his 39 siblings had to share his belongings and my husband ended up getting about two acres now if these people died god forbid their children mine inclusive are going to share the pieces of land their parents partook of their grandparents belongings it will literally mean that each child will get about thirty decimals slightly bigger than a court an acre does that mean this children won't farm considering that the backbone of our nation Uganda is agriculture I know someone in Kenya who makes hair lots of money from just a quarter a piece of land with 40 Friesian cows i divided my farm into four quarters the first quarter I keep pigs and I'll play with the pig done with the thirty stars I have to produce food for chickens and fish this is what I do in the morning when I pick the pig down from the piggery house I leave it out in the open for six to eight hours and in so doing flies come along and they lay eggs on it I then cover it for four to five days and when I open it I get nice juicy maggots these I feed my chickens and then after I've picked the maggots out of the pig dung I still introduce fat ones and when I do the Antoine's multiply as they're multiplying they eat on the pig dung and the produce soil this soil I used to grow vegetables and sometimes I sell to the people in the city as for their potted plants and as the atoms multiply the excrete when they excrete I use their excreta as a pesticide and the fertilizer for my garden pig dung is gold to me because I serve 80% of my course of production by feeding the chickens and the fish which I wouldn't have done if I was using commercial feed the second quarter I grow I cube cattle well almost everyone in Uganda uses firewood and charcoal to cook I use dung for the cows I introduce it in an anaerobic digester this is an airtight tank that uses microorganisms to degrade the cow dung and in the process it produces biogas that I used to cook I don't have suit were the rest of the people who use chuckle and firewood do and in the process I sell on what would have happened if we cut down trees to make choco and burgers because when we do that we bring climate change issues this Larry that comes out of the biogas I use this as manure for my farm in this third quarter I grow motoki or planting this is my step of food and just like maize is the step for South Africa quit for the US and rise for the Asians so where I have my farm everyone believes that nothing can ever grow there because the soils the red and I don't learn them because well in school we were taught that fertile soils are black these were the loam soils but the soil in my garden says oh oh you won't grow here and the Mitaka says I will if I'm given water and my newer this I do by collecting all the urine from the pigs all the urine from the cows and the slurry if I'm not mistaken I'm the best motoki farmer in my country because in one in a quarter acre I only I get 30 bunches from this and on average I sell each bunch at $10 the fourth quarter I keep fish in a space of 2 meters by 4 meters by 1 meter depth I can keep 500 catfish I also do aquaponics this is where water that comes from the fish goes through the plants and as it goes through the plants the plants filter it because they take the ammonia the nitrous that were produced with the fish down so when it goes through the water and back when it goes through the plants and back to the water also the fish it is clean oxygenated water from my chill Appiah tilapia needs oxygen in a space of eight meters by 15 meters i grow tomatoes and they can have four thousand eight hundred kilos in six months which amounts to about two thousand seven hundred US dollars I also do high hydroponics this is soil is farming where cereal as cereals like Bali are used their sprouted and using germination conditions of germination that is air water and warmth and when I do that in six days I produce food for my animals in a space of twenty feet by six feet that's just about a container I can grow for them for four hundred four kilograms of folder for either a hundred pigs or 2025 cows all 1,500 chicken and if my pigs eat this they enjoy I produce good quality pork if my chickens eat this I have yellow yolk eggs which I sell expensively because they are Ganic and if the cattle eat this I'll have milk without having to struggle to cut down trees or moving around looking for grass out of the profits from the farm my husband and I decided to build a primary school these school teachers sons and daughters of African farmers the three things Africans affair to teach their children time management value of money and the culture of saving by teaching them more than methods of Agriculture and it's amazing what these young children their minds Congress it I'll give you an example we have a ten year old after only three months in our school he went to his father's home in holiday and this is what he did he overturned the compound got tires from the garage broken wheelbarrows sucks and made a vegetable garden they enjoy this at home and they sell some to the rest of the neighbors whenever you like you think now when we built the school we didn't have enough money to build a sock pit so a worried but we needed to start and the first day of the school this is what happened a lot of water gushed out of the showers and were like wow this is too much but we use this as an opportunity it is what we use in our garden and the rest so we can I be able to produce very big fruits this is what happens when if everyone every one of us uses what they have at their disposal an example I use the down to my disposal to make a layer lots of money and if any of us is because we use a lot of water if all of us save the water we were using to wash or clean our firms wouldn't have issues of water Socastee you to draw it you [Applause]

Channel: TEDx Talks

Views: 776,135

Keywords: TEDxTalks, English, Business, Africa, Africans, Agriculture, Developing World, Economics, Education, Entrepreneurship, Farming, Food, Innovation, Poverty, Social Entrepreneurship, Women in business

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Length: 11min 2sec (662 seconds)

Published: Mon May 07 2018