Agriculture is central to Uganda’s economic growth, poverty reduction and employment with an estimate of about 68% of Uganda’s working population being employed in the sector.
Her name is Ifeoluwa Oyeyemi from Nigeria, She is 30 years old. A proud vegetable farmer, an agro-dealer, and an agricultural advocate.
What is the Africa Ifeoluwa wants?
"The Africa I want as a farmer is one where we produce and not starve."@IfeOluwaOyeyem
300 Euros per square meter for a production of automation and high tech. I visited a hydroponic farm thats 5ha making 9 million euros per annum. So that's a R24 000 000 investment to run your operation repaid in 3 years.
A few years back, Grace Ngungi took a leap of faith and began pulling down the coffee plants on her 400-hectare farm in Juja, Kiambu County, to replace half the farm with avocado trees.
She went ahead and https://t.co/ryVhyKF4KB #avocadofarming#successstories
Agriculture today is taking a new dimension with brilliant young Agrominds coming up with different ideas and innovation on how Agriculture should and can be digitalized and make food production and all the value chains under it an enterprise worth investing in Africa.
Today, the Agricultural sector is beginning to see new faces and new brains who are ready to change the narrative about agriculture and ready to give farming the name that it really deserves in our society and the world at large.
Hello Fellow Agrominds, let's do it for the world, for our continent, for our country, for humanity, let's make hunger alleviation and Nutrition balance our noble task, let's make sure people aren't just eating but eating healthy foods too.
Thank you.
Agro-comrades.
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This innovations are to advance agriculture technology and mechanization to address some of the post-pandemic challenges across different agricultural value chains in Kenya and by extension, Africa.
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