Uganda: Nagawa quit her job during lockdown to start urban farming
In her backyard, Hajarah Nagawa has a chicken business with about 500 kroilers. She buys one-month old birds at Shs8,000 and sells them between Shs35,000 and to Shs40,000.
By Racheal Nabisubi
Monitor
June 22, 2021
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“Minus the costs and operations, I earn around Shs5 million in five months. We sell in bits, because some hens by three months are already heavy and ready for sale.” She says adding, “For home consumption, we sell based on the weight of the bird, while birds for resale are sold for around Shs35,000.
In addition, she plants maize where she earns extra income.
Ms Nagawa harvests maize which she takes to the milling machine. This is usually 1000 kg of maize where she gets 50% of either maize bran or posho. This is sold depending on the retail price per the season.
“Currently, a kg of posho at market price costs Shs1,200. I earn about Shs600,000 from 500kg of posho. Those are about five bags of 100Kg,” she explains.
However, this rarely happens because instead of getting the money, she exchanges her maize at the maize milling shop for either vaccines for her birds or feeds equivalent to her kgs.
“During the exchange, the trader’s decides how much he/she will sell the posho. The price of posho ranges between Shs1,500 and Shs2,000 depending on the quality,” she notes.
