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Maize is the most consumed cereal in the world. In many countries of Africa, for example Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, DR Congo, it is the staple food. Click to download Report [...]
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Access to affordable credit spurring businesses to success in West Nile
West Nile is a land of immense potential and opportunity largely because of its strategic location at the intersection of three countries – Uganda, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Click to download Report [...]
CURAD: Changing lives, raising hopes, ensuring destiny
The Consortium for enhancing niversity Responsiveness to Agribusiness Development Ltd (CURAD) is an innovative agribusiness incubator established in 2012 by Makerere University, National Union of Coffee Agribusinesses and Farm Enterprises (NUCAFE) and National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO). Click to download Report [...]
Lamentations of a sesame farmer launches out into the deep
Remijio Drani, quite unfortunately, wasn’t well off. And it wasn’t that he was born on the wrong side of the tracks; rather that, for many years, the commercial sesame farmer in Orra Village, Guluku-Atuni Sub-county, Rhino Camp, Drani faced numerous challenges. The sesame seeds he used, as was the case [...]
ACPCU has given back Ankole Coffee its appeal
Jessica Birungi, a 45-year-old coffee farmer and residentof Kayanga West Ward, Rushozi Ward, Kabwohe Divisionin Mbarara district, in 2015, started with an acre of coffeeand at that time it didn’t look like it would ever growbeyond that. Fast forward to today, and Jessica is theproud owner of four acres of [...]
UGAFODE, ABI BOOST
He adds that UGAFODE has leveraged the opportunity to access credit lines with concessionary interest rates from aBi Finance to fund its agricultural lending operations, thus enabling the Click to download Report [...]
Yields on Sembabule Farms
He adds that UGAFODE has leveraged the opportunity to access credit lines with concessionary interest rates from aBi Finance to fund its agricultural lending operations, thus enabling the Click to download Report [...]
Chilli Farmers Reaping
One of the highlights from the 2022 Harvest Money Expo was the number of farmers and other players who exhibited locally value added products. Value ad-edition improves a farmer’s earnings by over 50%. Almost every food produced in Uganda can be processed into several other products. This is right from [...]
Brief – Evaluating aBi Impact on Uganda’s Agribusiness during and Post COVID19
The 2020 evaluation explored the COVID-19 impact on agribusiness revenues, farmer incomes, and performance of loan portfolios during the 2020 to 2021 period, where the agriculture sector endured shocks arising from the COVID-19 impact. Download Report [...]