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Design and construction of a manually and engine powered cassava chipping machine.

Taban, Moses (Busitema University., 2011-05)

Cassava manihot esculentus, is one of the important. crop grown in most parts of Uganda. They are rich sources of carbohydrates and can be grown in poor soils. The crop today in. Uganda receives a major boost due to the ...
Design and construction of a manually operated coffee grading machine.

Obeti, Grism Lawrence (Busitema University., 2011-05)

Uganda's economy is largely agro-based and in an attempt to improve the income base, the. developing technology has to meet the needs of the farmers. Coffee is by far one of the most important export crops accounting for ...
Design and construction of a manually operated rotary paddy weeder for Busitema community.

Nelima, Anita (Busitema University., 2012-05)

Rice is the world's most important cereal considering the area under cultivation and The number of households that depend on it. Rice farmers are encountering several constraints that inhibit their ability to increase rice ...
Design of a sprinkler irrigation system for sun flower

Buwembo, Mike (Busitema University, 2013)

Sunflower is one of the few crop species that originated in North America and possibly brought in Uganda by missionaries as one of the experimental crops in 1920s and 1930s. It is the third largest source of vegetable oil ...
Automation of a drip irrigation system for citrus at national semi arid resources research institute-Serere.

Ebitu, Larmbert (Busitema University., 2013)

While the necessity of irrigation in general is appreciated, the focus of research has now shifted to the recent concept of agric-technology that seeks to widen modern agricultural horizons and in incorporating the use of ...
Design and fabrication of a mechanized Irish potato peeler.

Mugerwa, Denis (Busitema University., 2013)

Irish potatoes are widely grown in various districts in Uganda including: Kabale, Kisoro, Rukungiri, Mbarara, Kasese, Kabarole, Masaka, Mubende, Mbale, Kapchorwa and Nebbi districts. Peeling of potatoes is done when potatoes ...
Design of a solar-powered drip-irrigation system for passion fruits in Bumwangu village.

Masaaba, Rogers (Busitema University., 2013-05)

The need for irrigation and use of Renewable energy sources in Uganda cannot be over emphasized. Due to its tropical location, Uganda is endowed with a wide variety succulent, tropical Fruits. Yet the supply keeps on ...
Designing of a PV solar energy system for the administration block and hostels of Busitema university main campus.

Mugisha, Emmanuel Bashaija (Busitema University., 2013-05)

Electricity is an integral utility in modern society with links to everything from human subconscious fear of the dark to the practical need for working illumination in an industrialized world. The entire world essentially ...
Design and construction of a simple hand operated sugarcane crusher.

Muhumuza, Jimmy (Busitema University., 2013-05)

Uganda's economy primarily depends on agriculture with about 80-90% of the population employed in farming accounting to 22% of the. Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Sugarcane. is one of the major commercial crops grown and ...
Design and construction of a coffee pulping machine.

Muhire, Nelson (Busitema University., 2013-05)

Coffee is primarily produced- by smallholders and is the main source of income for more than 500,000 Ugandan smallholders. In spite of high export earnings from coffee globally, coffee produced in most African countries ...
Design and construction of a pedal powered water pump.

Namubiru, Beatrice Babirye (Busitema University., 2013-05)

The needs of water in Uganda are increasingly becoming versatile. For example, apart from using water for domestic purposes, water is also needed in farms for irrigation due to climatic change chat does -make rainfall ...
Design and simulation of a bird control system for rice growers in eastern Uganda.

Ssekiziyivu, Atanansi (Busitema University., 2013-05)

Rice is an edible starchy cereal, consumed and cultivated worldwide with almost /3(a third) of the population reliant on the cereal. Uganda yields 180,000 metric tons at a local demand of 240,000 metric tons leaving a ...
Design and construction of a centrifugal grain grinder for a rural community.

Ndibwami, Blydens (Busitema University., 2013-07)

The design and construction of a centrifugal grain grinder, for my final year project, was undertaken to promote the grinding of various food grains for human nutrition, improve on the livelihood and increase grain production ...
Design and construction of a motorized rice destoner for Butaleja farmers.

Kamayonza, Sylivia (2014)

Rice is the second highest worldwide grown crop after maize arid is sustenance of life. In Uganda. Rice is grown all around .the country. but widely in the eastern region. Rice demand in. Uganda exceeds local production ...
Design and fabrication of a motorized multi-grain winnowing machine.

Katajja, Bashir (Busitema University, 2014)

Grain production in Uganda is dominated by small-scale subsistence fanners as 95% of the production is by small-scale subsistence and the rest by commercial fanners respectively (FAD and Agal, 2.Q.0.5),A variety of grains ...
Design and construction of a motorized paddy rice de-stoner.

Kanshangeho, Bailon (Busitema University, 2014)

Rice is one of the major crops through which many people in Uganda earn their livelihood and in the recent past, it has gained a lot of economic importance in Uganda because it has a comparative market advantage of 1.87 ...
Design of a recirculating aquaculture system for Uganda fish farmers.

Kasaija, Justus (Busitema University, 2014)

Aquaculture is the science art and Business of farming or cultivating fish under controlled conditions. The gap between the supply of fish and the demand for fish is widening both in Uganda and globally, current fish farming ...
Design and construction of a tractor drawn sweet potato harvesting implement.

Kayondo, Edward (Busitema University., 2014)

Sweet potato (ipomoea batatas Lamk), a South America crop by origin (Austine 1988) and introduced by missionaries in Uganda in 1900s, is one of the most important crops in densely populated East African countries and is ...
Investigating the effects of using agrochemicals for greenhouse flower production on the environment :

Kibuule, Franco (Busitema University., 2014-05)

The use of agrochemicals in greenhouses for flower production is common in many flower farms in Uganda today. This is because of their copious advantages which tantamount to increase in yields, improvement in quality and ...
Design and construction of a motorised sorghum threshing and winnowing machine.

Nabwami, Proscovia (Busitema University., 2014-05)

Sorghum is the third most important cereal crop grown in Uganda after maize and finger millet occupying 285,000ha of arable land (http://teca.fao.org). It is widely grown in various districts in Uganda including: Karamoja, ...

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