Ankole Coffee Farmers
Let us fight maize pests Click to download Report [...]
Agricultural financing sends a down-to-earth farmer reaching for the skies
Gabriel Ducu, a friendly, down-to-earth father of three lives just a few kilometres from Loro-Oyam Trading Centre in Oyam District. The 34 -year- farmer is an amazing story; havingstarted small and unsteady. Click to download Report [...]
West Nile farmers to prosperity
VisionFund’s interventions would not have been possible without the support of Agricultural Business Initiative (aBi), says Evelyn Njereyo, the VisionFund Uganda regional manager for West Nile. Click to download Report [...]
Cheap Loans Propel
In a 10-part series, Harvest Money shall carry stories focusing on the success of aBi interventions countrywide. In the fourth story, Andrew Masinde explores VisionFund and how it has transformed lives in West Nile regi Click to download Report [...]
Opportunity Bank Loans
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 [...]
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 [...]