49 Crops You Can Plant In Karachuonyo, Homabay County

By Juma / Published June 8, 2023 | 11:26 am

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For avocados, use the following varieties: Hass, Fuerte, Pinkerton, Entigger, Puebla, Linda, reed. For mangoes, use the following varieties: Van Dyke, Tommy Atkins, Apple, Haden, Sensation, Kent, Sabine, Sabre, Keit, Maya, Boribo.

For years, the main agricultural activity in Homabay County has been fishing. Most residents in the county take part in fishing practices, either from Lake Victoria or through fish farming. But a walk through the county will prove that there are so many opportunities in crop farming.

We took a trip across Homabay last week, specifically in Karachuonyo to find out the type of crops that do well in the area. Combined with our online research and conversation with farmers on the ground, we established that at least 49 crops do well in this area.

For Cereals, farmers in Karachuonyo prefer:

Maize
Forktail Millet
Sorghum
Upland Rice and
Wheat

For maize, the following varieties are the ones that marry well with the soil in Karachuonyo:

Pan 4M-11
SC Pindamilia 55
DKC 8053
EMBU POA
KH50013E
Pan 3M05
PAN 7M 83
SC Duma 419
SC Pundamilia 545
SC Simba 649, Simba, SY 5344

For sorghum, the following varieties will be suitable for the soil in Karachuonyo:

SC Smile, 2K x 17
KS -Sorg2
RUT53
Hybrid Mtama-1(KSBH-01
Egerton Sorghum Hybrid
KS-SWEET SORGH 4
Kak sweet Sorgh1,
IS8595
IS 8193
KENSORG 11
KENSORG 12

Most of the farmers in this region grow the above cereals in small scale portions for consumption. Most of the cereal sold on the market comes from other counties.

In terms of the fruits, avocado, grape fruits, lemons, limes, mango, sweet oranges, and pawpaws do well in this place.

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The soil is also the best for bananas and the mushrooms.

For bananas, the following varieties do well: Grand naine (Ripening), Uganda Green (Cooking types), Giant Cavendish (Ripening), Fhia 17 (Ripening), Williams (Ripening), GT-Kisii sweet (Apple), Vallery (Ripening), Lacatan (Ripening), Ngombe (Cooking types), Nusu Ngombe(Cooking types), Pelipita (Dual), Bokoboko (Dual).

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