Intensive egg production for the smallholder in Uganda

Abstract

Increased costs of imported farm products into Uganda have offered the smallholder a challenge can be, in fact, replace the imported produce and, perhaps, even under-sell much of it? In particular, new-laid eggs are generally in short supply in Uganda and, even when available, are very expensive. As a result the writer considered it worthwhile to conduct an experiment to see what return could be obtained from poultry on the home scale. It was thought also at the time that, were the experiment successful, it would be possible to make up foods from local foodstuffs, according to various well-tried formulae given in the East African Agricultural Journal.