Pop corn; An income generating source
9000 Cfa F for a 20 litres’ bucket
- Production methods,
- Diseases and control,
- Experience sharing,

08 May 2009

Pop corn; An income generating source : Avoiding cross pollination and preservation
One of the greatest problems faced by farmers who venture into cultivating pop corn is getting seeds, though most farmers resort to turning imported pop corn meant for consumption to seeds.
08 May 2009

Plantain production : Techniques of plantain seedling multiplication

There are both slow and fast techniques of multiplying plantain seedlings.

24 Apr 2009

Plantain production : Buea women to benefit from plantain high value

Women around the Bonavada area in Buea are doing everything to benefit from both the high nutritive content of plantains (bananas) and the economic opportunities this crop offers to those who are already into its production.

24 Apr 2009

Mushroom cultivation : Cheaper & profitable production methods

- nutritional and economic values,
- medicinal values,
- training opportunities,
- some growers & market outlets

20 Feb 2009

Mushroom substrate : Getting good mushroom substrate from corn husk

Chopping the corn husk into tiny particles. Preparing substrate is one of the major factors in mushroom growing. This has so many stages. You first chop the corn husks into small bids, ...

20 Feb 2009

Mushroom Reactions :“One kg of mushroom has ten times the protein content in one kg of meat,”

Mesape Emeh Martin, technical director, Good Farm, Small Soppo, Buea

20 Feb 2009

Making sweet potato chips and flour
Sweet potato is a popular food in many parts of Cameroon; it is drought resistant, and can grow in marginal areas, thus could contribute to improved food security if there is the means to transform and keep for hash seasons.
Also, the young leaves and vines can be consumed as vegetables or fed to livestock.

12 Nov 2008

Cane rat domestication

-Breeding techniques,
-Unexploited market at home & abroad
-Expert & farmers’ experiences

30 Oct 2008

Feeding the cane rat

To be successful, the animals have to be well fed. This means that enough food has to be given to the animals.

30 Oct 2008

Gestation, Reproduction Cycle of the Cane rat
The cane rat can put to birth at anytime in a year. At the end of the gestation period, it is observed that the hedgehog rest a lot. That it stays comfortably with its stomach touching the floor.
30 Oct 2008

Nkah Martin ; Superintendent retired into mixed farming

In his late 60s, retired Police Superintendent, Nkah Martin who served in the Cameroon police for decades is now into mixed farming in Buea, South West Province.

30 Oct 2008

Cane rat meat: Costly but highly valued
The scarcity of highly valued cutting grass meat due to deforestation and over exploitation in the wild has caused the cutting grass meat to become very costly.
30 Oct 2008