Uganda’s cocoa industry is growing rapidly, but the bigger opportunity may lie in what happens after the beans leave the farm. The country exported 72,545 tonnes of cocoa worth US 620.76 million in the financial year 2024/25, up from 51,678…
Uganda’s cocoa industry is entering a new phase. The crop is no longer a small agricultural story; it is becoming a significant export business. The opportunity now is to build the businesses and infrastructure around it so that more of…
For years, agricultural waste has been treated as the unwanted side of farming: coffee husks left around processing plants, maize cobs discarded after harvest, animal manure accumulating on farms and crop residues burned or left to decompose. But across Africa,…
For generations, agriculture in Uganda has been presented primarily as a production question. We have asked how to increase yields, get more young people into farming, improve access to inputs and put more land under commercial production. The assumption has…