Getting and keeping good workers is a challenge every farm owner or manager has to deal with on a day to day basis. Good workers are hard to find, so when you get one, you have to do everything possible to retain them. Below are some tips on how to retain good workers on your farm. 1. Comfortable accommodation Some farm owners provide better accommodation for their livestock than for the workers who look after them. I have seen this in parts of Mukono, Mbarara, Hoima and the central, true it is the livestock generating the money, but without the workers to look after them properly, their productivity will soon drop. So why dose a goat or cow even a pig sleep comfortably than the care taker. Buy them good mattresses, blankets and make them eat their money well (farm workers). 2. Good food You would expect farm workers to have the best meals, since food is produced cheaply on the farm; however this is not always the case. Unless they steal some it is common for a worker on
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