Farms: Smart Farming: Earning from inter-cropping coffee and bananas

Growing coffee and bananas forms the economic base for most of the small-scale farmers in most of Uganda. Bananas, commonly known as matooke, is an important food staple in Uganda produced all year round; farmers sell surplus yield on a daily basis. Coffee, on the other hand, is a pure cash crop, cultivated on over half a million coffee farms in Uganda. It generates some 20% of Uganda’s foreign exchange revenues. The two plants; coffee and banana have a symbiotic relationship thus of great economic benefits if planted together. In smart farming tonight, we look at the economic benefits you have when you inter-crop banana and coffee.