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February 22, 2012 at 3:09 pm
Market Access for Sustainable Development
‘Pro-poor & Smallholder Inclusive Value Chain Development’
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January 23, 2012 at 10:43 pm
I am sure you are doing your best to communicate information to people who are interested in agriculture and your effort is highly appreciated. This blog can be a more efficient internet tool for getting agricultural information to internet people if NAADS could provide a little more agricultural guidance in addition to giving contacts of the district NAADS coordinator and thereby facilitate the NAADS vision “to increase farmers’ access to information, knowledge and technology for profitable agricultural development”.
February 5, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Dear All, Naads has undergone reorganisation for the better and there will be timely response to all your emails.
Thanks
Anthony
PRO
December 6, 2011 at 11:15 pm
Try renting the machines. Interest rates in banks are high and you can risk your fortune.
NAADS might not be the best option for you to demonstrate the justification. Share with businessmen or institutions like in Teso or Acholi where the major problem cld be opening up enough land ahead of the march season. they can hire your machines.
Design a servive package for people who are involved in large scale agric but lacking such a technology. Advertise and accept to earn less especially when bank loans are expensive
If you have your own land, this will be a fortune for you in years to come
December 24, 2011 at 6:23 am
This is a really inltleignet way to answer the question.
December 24, 2011 at 4:13 pm
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December 26, 2011 at 7:32 pm
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January 27, 2012 at 11:50 am
Thanks a million for your advice,according to you what is the acceptable rate per acre being practiced.
December 1, 2011 at 6:03 pm
I acquired 2500 acres of customary land with the sole intention to produce food for local consumption as Uganda lacks big mechanized farmers. I have spent over 75,000 Euros of my personal money on this project with the hope that I would be an example to the show case and make the government invest seriously in small co-operative to ensure food security.
It has been 3 years I have been doing small scale farming of 100 acres and the yield has been very promising and the impact on the population has been amazing. This prompted me to think of a big scale mechanized farming whose target is to produce food (Rice) for the local market and create jobs in an area.
I travelled to Uganda last month to reception the container and tractor, all these equipment arrived safely and are now in Kampala and ready to start work. I applied for an agricultural loan of 70,000 € which is equivalent to the value of the equipment I acquired but unfortunately I was let down and the current interest rates are so high that there are higher risks of failure to refund or service the loans now I have no working capital to initiate the project.
Having said that, all my efforts were in vain as no single bank or organization could funding me and yet the govt talks of having set aside a budget to finance public-private investments in Agriculture.
Can NAADS provide me with some uselful information on agricultural funding
The list of equipment bought from France and already shipped to Uganda include:
1 Tractor ( Landini 165 TDI) can plough 50 acres per day
1 Plough (Naud)
1 Auto Planter (Sulky GC Tramlines)
1 Harrow (Quivogne)
1 Heavy duty Chainsaw (Dolmar PS910S60)
6 Electric Generators (Mag 3.2 KVA’s)
1 Motorized pesticide sprayer(Hardy 3500 Liters)