A Coffee field destructed by heavy sunshine in the dry spell of July - September 2016 in Masaka.
Coffee under Mutuba tree a Indigenous tree specie in Uganda used as a shade tree in coffee farms
Mr. Lubega of Kitiibwa, Kayunga district a coffee farmer says if it was not by the shade provided by a shade tree called Ficus Natalensis locally know as Mutuba, he would harvest nothing from his coffee field. Because he planted many Mutuba trees he able to harvest coffee twice a year and send his grand children to school.
This evidently bring up why Ugandan should go back to the grassroots and adopt indigenous tree planting if we are to address the challenge of climate change.
Indigenous trees in additional to providing shade to crops, they also have various advantages like conserving soil and water in farm lands, recycling to improve soil fertility after leaf fall, habitat to wild birds and animals, herbs for both animals and human to cure various diseases.
If we destruct our nature we put our future on stake.
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