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Uganda delays harvesting of vanilla

A farmer inspects a vanilla farm. Ugandan farmers will have to wait for another month before they can harvest their vanilla crop this season, pushing the availability of new produce to January 15, 2020. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

By  JONATHAN KAMOGA

Ugandan farmers will have to wait for another 30 days before they can harvest their vanilla crop this season, pushing the availability of new produce to January 15, 2020.

The earlier planned harvest time set in May this year was moved to December.

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