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Agriculture

Something is wrong with your crops, soil or livestock

Falling yield almost never has one obvious cause. It could be soil chemistry, water, compaction, seed, pests or a change upstream of your land - and from a distance these look identical. Ujenva helps you narrow it down, work out what test or visit would settle it, and arrive at an agronomist with the right information already gathered.

Describe your situationHow Ujenva works

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Sounds familiar?

You don't have to phrase it properly.

These are real ways people have described problems in this field. Any of them is a complete starting point - Ujenva asks for the rest.

What Ujenva establishes first

Before suggesting anything, it works out what it does not yet know.

  • At what growth stage the plants underperform
  • Whether the whole area is affected or only part of it
  • What changed - seed, fertiliser, rainfall, or nearby land use
  • Whether the soil has ever been tested

Who this usually needs

You don’t need to know which of these applies - that is the part Ujenva works out, including the order they should come in.

AgronomistSoil testing laboratoryAgricultural engineerExtension officer

Ujenva is not any of these professionals. It prepares the brief and the questions, then steps back - the work, the fee and the relationship stay between you and them.

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Crop productionSoil healthIrrigationLivestockPost-harvest

Common questions

Agriculture questions people ask first

Ask about your own situation
Why is my maize yield dropping even though I plant the same way?
Because something other than your method has changed. The most common causes are soil acidification after years of the same fertiliser without lime, waterlogging from altered drainage, or a compacted layer below plough depth. These produce similar symptoms above ground, so a soil test is usually the cheapest way to tell them apart before spending on a fix.
Do I need a soil test or an agronomist first?
Usually the agronomist, because sampling technique determines whether the laboratory result means anything. Composite samples taken separately from good and poor sections tell you far more than one pooled sample, and most farmers get one chance at it per season.
How do I know if a farm problem needs an expert or if I can fix it myself?
If you can identify what changed and the fix is cheap and reversible, try it. If the cause is genuinely unclear, or the fix costs more than a soil test, establish the cause first. Ujenva will tell you plainly which of the two situations you are in.

Other fields

Problems rarely stay in one box.

If this isn't quite it, start anywhere - Ujenva works out which field the problem actually belongs to.

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