“Banks do not fear financing agriculture”

In the last week of November, both the Agri-Hubs in Uganda and Kenya organised Finance Fairs, where hundreds of farmers met with banks and other financial service providers. The Fairs delivered great results: posing the question to the audience of who actually did business during the Ugandan Fair resulted in a hall full of hands up!

Market information: Good for farming business and food security

“Why is it that our youth today are easily spending 1000 shilling for a single vote to keep Sharon in the Big Brother Africa House, and are rather less inclined to pay for mobile market info at 1200 Shilling a months?”

This food for thought was shared by Enoth Mbeine of FIT-Uganda during one of the sessions at the successful APF Uganda Market Information Symposium held in Kampala on 15 and 16 September. It sums up that the innovations are there, but getting them implemented and refined may take another quantum leap: farming needs to be seen as a viable business, particularly by the youth.