With many local producers, processors and aggregators in the Agricultural value chain focusing on exporting their products to the European markets even amidst the various hurdles that are clearly designed to only encourage us to export raw materials as opposed to processed products, its time to rethink our approach. The COMESA region for starters could offer more than enough market for the average company in Uganda today. Find out more in this article.
Tag Archives: Food Processing
COMESA or EU. Which Market for Uganda’s Agricultural Products?
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Tagged africa, Agriculture, agro, comesa, eac, east africa, eu, Food Processing, sme, trade, Uganda
Improving Farmers’ Incomes needs a Multi-Level approach
There is a growing need to re-think the current approach in Uganda towards stimulating improvements in the Agricultural sector and small holder farmer incomes at that. Isolated activities devoid of consideration of symbiotic activities will only yield failure in the long run. I explore more in this article
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Tagged africa, African Union, Agriculture, AU, caadp, Farming, Food Processing, income, James Wire, marketing, small holder, value addition
The Wire Perspective 