“Unlike traders who make instant profits, we farmers work on probabilities. Even if you work hard, it’s the traders to decide which prices to give us.Apart from saving my family from starvation, I hardly show a major achievement from farming.”
This is the lament of struggling Ugandan farmer Vincent Mpoza.
Paul Kibwika, the head of Extensions Education at Makerere University College of Agricultural Sciences, adds, “Agricultural value chains in Uganda are not coordinated. There are many
actors whose relationship is that of exploitation. Everyone tries to
exploit the other instead of having a mutual relationship where everyone
can benefit.”
“Farmers, being at the extreme end on
the production side of the chain, are always the most disadvantaged
because they are at the mercy of other actors, mainly traders,” Kibwika explains.
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