What Is Sukuma Wiki?
Sukuma wiki is an East African dish made with collard greens, known as sukuma, cooked with onions and spices. It is often served and eaten with ugali. In Uganda and many parts of East Africa, colewort are more commonly known by their Swahili name, sukuma, and are often referred to as collard greens.
How To Grow Sukuma Wiki In Uganda?
Sukuma wiki requires at least six hours of direct sunlight. For optimum yield, sukuma wiki requires enough water during its growing period. Well distributed rainfall of 350-500mm is ideal. Sukuma wiki will yield about 8,000 kilogrammes per acre, under good management practices.
What Is The Best Way To Plant Sukuma Wiki In Uganda?
Sukuma wiki is first sown in nursery beds before transplanting. Nursery beds for sukuma wiki are created by raising soil and creating Furrow like lines to sow seeds which are then covered with thin soil. The nursery bed should be watered twice daily and mulching is preferred to conserve the moisture on soil.
How Long Does Sukuma Wiki Take To Grow In Uganda?
Within four weeks after transplanting, meaning about eight weeks after planting the seeds, sukuma wiki will be ready for harvest. It is done when the leaves are the size of your hand.
Which Is The Best Fertilizer For Sukuma Wiki In Uganda?
After two weeks, spray your sukuma wiki with a foliar fertilizer like Easy Gro or Gatit foliar feed fertilizer. At this stage, the plant will be experiencing extensive leaf growth, so fertilization is key.
What Is The Spacing Of Sukuma Wiki In Uganda?
Select the best variety for your area. After buying the seed propagate them in a nursery then transplant them at a spacing of 45 cm to 60 cm depending on water availability. 45 cm if there is plenty of water and 60 cm if the water is not enough.
How Long Does It Take For Sukuma Wiki Seeds To Germinate In Uganda?
Spread the seeds thinly and cover lightly with soil, thereafter cover the bed/container with grass and water. After three days, your Sukuma/spinach will have germinated, water daily and after four weeks they will be ready to be taken to the gunia or your backyard.
How Much Is A Kilo Of Sukuma Wiki In Uganda?
Data from the Economic Survey shows that a kilogramme of sukuma wiki sold at an average Sh49. 07 compared to Sh44.
How Do You Grow Healthy Sukuma Wiki In Uganda?
Water the transplanted seedlings twice a day, in the mornings and evenings and don’t miss a day. You will get healthy Sukuma Wiki only when you maintain care from a young age. After two weeks, spray your sukuma wiki with a foliar fertiliser like Easy Gro or Gatit foliar feed fertiliser.
Is Sukuma Wiki A Flowering Plant In Uganda?
Sukuma wiki: mostly propagated by seed, sometimes vegetatively; plant habit close to ‘rugare’; for repeated leaf pickings, yellow flowering; rare in Zimbabwe, but the most common type in East African countries; heterogeneous, often from local seed.
Is Sukuma Wiki Farming Profitable In Uganda?
89,000 from a weekly harvest of sukuma wiki. Averagely, the farmer says he earns not less than Sh1. 4m from kale production every season translating to a monthly income of Sh. 356,000.