Gordon’s Agricultural Organization -Uganda limited aims at providing every small scale farmers with all the latest agricultural practices that they require to produce more food and earn Extra income.
The subsistent farmer’s food security is precarious because of the low acreage and low productivity. Farmers are also dependent on rainfall only. When drought strike, the farmer experience failure of crops and hence certain famine. Therefore GAO-UG LIMITED has trained over 500 small scale farmers on ox- plough draft technology to improve on their food production
A farmer using an ox- plough can increase his/ her acreage to 10-15 acres in one-month cultivation. This increases the household land area of crops three times in a year. Other benefits of this method of cultivation are that the farmer (household) has time to weed his/ her crops early thus improving the productivity of his farm. During training of the farmer, he/she also gets the knowledge of improved agricultural techniques that can increase the yield of his crops.
The major objective and goals of training farmers on ox plough draft technology is to;
i) To increase acreage of each family
ii) To reduce incidents of famines
iii) To enable each family to produce enough food for itself and stop relief food operations
iv) To improve farmers agricultural knowledge and techniques through extension programs
v) To use ox-plough training centers as demonstration and extension centers also
vi) To train 12 extension workers to disseminate modern agricultural techniques
How to start
Ox ploughing technology can be used for tilling land and for weeding. The oxen too can be used to pull carts that transport manure or crop yields.
This type of technology is very helpful to small-scale farmers as it helps them to increase their crop yields as ploughing is done faster than when a farmer uses a hand hoe.
A farmer can rear his bulls, castrate them and when they are mature, at about five years, he or she can start training them to do the ploughing. This can be done by people with such knowledg
