Grain

Wheat

📍 Uganda

Click a numbered marker on the plant to explore each life-cycle stage — or read the key dates on the right.

Sow Harvest

Sow

Mar – Sep

Harvest

Jun – Dec

Growing period

100 - 110 days

Seeding rate

56 kg/ha

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Harvest — this part of the plant

Roots & seed establish first. Sow in at .

Leaves & stem drive the vegetative stage over .

Flowering falls mid-cycle between sowing () and harvest (). Keep stress low here.

Fruit/grain matures — harvest around .

Local note

Based on similar agro-ecological conditions in another country — confirm with local extension.

Where Wheat grows in Uganda

hill mountain

Eastern, covering the ranges of Mt Elgon with rainfall over 1400 mm, altitude between 1,300 - 3, 600 M, with mostly rich volcanic soils

hill mountain

Eastern, covering the ranges of Mt Elgon with rainfall over 1400 mm, altitude between 1,300 - 3, 600 M, with mostly rich volcanic soils

hill mountain

Eastern, covering the ranges of Mt Elgon with rainfall over 1400 mm, altitude between 1,300 - 3, 600 M, with mostly rich volcanic soils

hill mountain

Eastern, covering the ranges of Mt Elgon with rainfall over 1400 mm, altitude between 1,300 - 3, 600 M, with mostly rich volcanic soils