Turning agricultural surplus into high Quality processing Jobs

An article from Infodev that details their efforts in turning produce especially during seasons of plenty into high quality processing jobs. I hope you find something you can take into your agribusiness. Text to the article

Youth in farming: 11 Ways to Turn Holiday Seasons into your Most Profitable Times

bananas (matooke), chicken, rice, peas, vegetables - Christmas food

Many people save up to buy lots of food, gifts and clothes during the holiday seasons. The holiday seasons are such as: Christmas holidays, Easter season, Muslim holy days (Idd Mubarak, Idd Aduha), Uganda Martyrs day. These are some of the most celebrated days in Uganda.

These should be the days, for a youth in farming, that should be the most profitable seasons. Why? Because, people are happy and they are in super high gear of buying lots of food or agricultural produce. They have saved the money to buy the best food for themselves and their families. Often people are looking for the biggest turkey, duck, chicken or biggest bunch of bananas that they can find.

15 Major Reasons Youth in Africa Do not Like a Career in Agriculture

As this video shows, agriculture is not mentioned at all by any of these young people. 

So we ask ourselves, why do youth in Uganda or Africa, in general, do not like agriculture as a business or career? Why do youth hate agriculture so much? Here below are the reasons we came up with, join in and leave your comment below.

10 Ways to Earn a Living from Agriculture Without Owning a Farm

Juice from different organic fruits in Uganda

20 Ways to Make $25,000 per month running an Agricultural Business

fish on a stall in Uganda

Josephine Kiiza, director of St Jude Family Projects at Busense, Kabonera subcounty in Masaka, is of the most successful farmers in Uganda.

At St. Jude family agricultural projects, they practice and train farmers in modern Integrated Organic Farming, a technology where various items on the farm - plants, animals, water and soils, are in such a way contributes directly or indirectly to the other.

A newvision article published in october 2005, mentions that Josephine Kiiza earns Uganda shillings 50 million ($25,000) per month from her 3.7 acre farm. She farm has She probably earns more money now.