{UAH} One Thousand Shilling Economy Daily

Peter

Museveni and Salim Saleh who are forcefully pushing for agricultural
transformation have very good motives but problem they never lived in
a high agro-produce consuming society other than Uganda.

Experience matters a lot!

Sometime back due to early and warm climate the Swede started getting
bumper Irish potatoes crop, occasioning packaging Irish potatoes. It
was very simple they create aluminum foils that never allow air. They
air dried the potatoes and milled it flour.

The Irish potatoes flour sachet went for the list price and one just
add warm water and get a ready meal. We tried the same in Luweero but
found out the problem once again was market.

quality and quantity (consumed) matters.

I have written to Minister/y of Trade and asked them to get as many
European and Indians involved in Uganda marketing and trading of
Uganda agribusinesses.

Surprisingly they do not get idea behind it!

Moving to Sweden I was shocked when my request to import beans to
Gothernburg was rejected by the Swedish food authority YET one Uganda
Indian who had a shop in that city used to import Uganda dried fish
and ground nuts.

Cultural has to be overcome to allow African products on American and
European market! Luckily Museveni charm, has enabled all Uganda
agro-produce on EU but there is need for export support fund.

A young Ugandan who did this sort of work from Brussels his business
collapsed during airlines chaos somewhere in 2007,8.

Rwanda is making very good natural and heavenly passion fruit juice
with honey as a natural preserve. I don't know how many bottles I have
bought. But on close analysis, I discovered that it was probably just
a few individuals that bought the juice.

Month after month I found the same bottles on Mega store shelves yet
the stock was not all that large (about 30 bottles) ! A bottle then
went for UGX 27000 bucks.

What is the problem and what can be done?

I thought of two ideas. One we have to boost farmers income that
required farmers to sell more but how since farmers themselves do not
reasonable incomes?

Yes if Uganda bought warehouses in London, New York, Dubai, Doha,
China Cities and elsewhere these will be Uganda properties. I was told
of a Nigeria who massively imported bananas in London. He has a
warehouse.

Now for Uganda, involve natives (Arabs, Chinese, Europeans, American)
in those countries and even pay them to; Import Uganda agro-produce;
Transport it, Brand it, Market it and Distribute , then Ugandans will
have reasonable earnings.

Then farmers can also raise their consumption power from incomes
accrued thereupon.

Marketing can be done via facebook that allows to upload videos or a
dedicated ministry of trade websites.

Example- A Germany wanted Uganda pork – according to him it has a good
aroma and taste good. Problem we had was how to get the required
capacity. We did a collective.

The problem was that the village people we gave two piglets each had
more problems than we had anticipated. Even though we helped them with
feeds the piglet as soon as they gained reasonable size- they were
sold off to pay school fees , buy food or other basic items. The
project collapsed but we learnt vital lessons.

In a sentence - Uganda Agriculture without the above is still a
perfect illusion.

And let me hasten to add, there is no way NADAs , OWC will improve the
situation unless dedicated markets are ready to buy.

Recently I was on study tour of Masaka and Rakai. I managed to also
looked at general agriculture. It is disheartening that people can
only trade in Vanilla (Tanzania), Watermelon, Tomatoes, Beans , Maize
and Passion Fruits, Cattle and pigs (Kampala) for some all the way
from Mpigi to Mutukula!

Reduce rural population and boost urban population - thus.

In Uganda in just a week and half, you can have sacks of dodo,
nakatti, (green vegetables) , however if you go large-scale no one
will buy it.

Bwanika.

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