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.
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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
Small Scale Business, Uganda’s gateway to prosperity
White collar education continuously pounds us with concepts that are sometimes not suitable for our own environs. Industrialisation has always been viewed from the perspective of large companies owned by a few but employing thousands of people. In Uganda, it seems like the trend is small businesses owned by thousands employing a handful each. The recently concluded Uganda Small Scale Industries Association trade fair was testimony to the successes the alternative approach is having in Uganda. More on that in this article.
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Tagged Agri Business, Agriculture, business, Economy, Money, sme, Uganda
The Wire Perspective 