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Rain is here, and it may be heavy.Government says most of Uganda could get about 25% more rain than usual this season. T...
24/10/2026

Rain is here, and it may be heavy.

Government says most of Uganda could get about 25% more rain than usual this season. The heaviest weeks are expected from now to mid-November, easing around late December, with some areas staying wet into January. Not every place will flood, but every farmer should plan as if the rain will test the harvest.

This season some farmers, like those in Lango, lost crops to a dry spell. Now the danger is the opposite: beans that grow mould, maize that rots in the bag, and roads that stop the buyer from reaching you. Grain already in your store is at risk too, because damp air gets in.

Simple steps that protect your income this week:
✅ Keep food and seed off the ground, on raised platforms
✅ Dry properly before storing, because wet grain spoils even in a good store
✅ Cover produce with tarpaulins when rain threatens
✅ Check stored grain often for damp, mould or insects
✅ Join other farmers to share a drying space and a store
✅ Keep some seed aside for the next season

Selling alone, wet and in a hurry, lets the buyer set the price. Selling together, dry and graded, lets you negotiate.

What is your biggest worry about the rains this season? Tell us below. 👇

Uganda has about 40 million acres of arable land. The Agriculture Minister says fewer than 2 million acres are in effect...
23/10/2026

Uganda has about 40 million acres of arable land. The Agriculture Minister says fewer than 2 million acres are in effective production.

Read that again. We are not short of land. We are short of what turns land into food and income.

In his statement to Parliament this week, the Minister said the sector grew 6.4% last year, faster than its ten-year average of 4.2%. Good news. But the same statement shows the gaps: 1,080 tractors and 1,350 walk-behind tractors deployed since 2018, and construction started at only 4 of 21 planned mechanisation centres. The plan now is 10,000 tractors over the next five years.

What does that mean on a real farm?

A farmer waits for the rains, then waits for a tractor. By the time the field is ploughed, the best planting days are gone. Late planting means a smaller harvest, less to sell, less to repay a loan, less to put back next season.

Most smallholders don't need to own a tractor. They need access: a reliable operator, a fair price per acre, a booking that is kept, and a machine that is serviced and doesn't break down mid-season. When farmers group together, hire becomes affordable. When hire is organised, idle land starts to produce.

And once the harvest comes, it needs storage, buyers and transport too. Machines are the first link in the chain, not the whole chain.

I'm building in this space myself, with an equipment-hire model for Luweero and Nakasongola, so I'll be sharing what I learn.

If you farm, how do you prepare your land today: hand hoe, hired tractor, or your own? And what stops you planting more acres? 👇

If you've ever watched a truck of tomatoes sit on a bad road, you already know this: in Uganda, transport can eat up to ...
14/10/2026

If you've ever watched a truck of tomatoes sit on a bad road, you already know this: in Uganda, transport can eat up to 40% of what goods are worth, and trips on main routes can be delayed two to three days.

A World Bank loan of $175 million is being prepared to fix the northeastern road from Tororo through Mbale, Soroti and Lira, with another $30 million for the Koboko–Yumbe–Moyo road in West Nile, where over a million people, including refugees, depend on it to reach markets. The plan also includes markets and rest areas along the road, and roads built to survive floods. About 6 in 10 national roads are at risk of flooding.

Good roads help farmers most when three things come with them:
• A road from your parish all the way to the main road that stays open in the rains
• A collection point with storage where farm roads meet the main road
• Drainage built in from the start

A better road gets your produce to market faster. A collection point is where you get a fair price for it.

What's the worst road between your farm and your buyer? 👇

We harvested 1,300 kg of maize from one acre this season. Most of our neighbours harvested nothing. The rains let them d...
13/10/2026

We harvested 1,300 kg of maize from one acre this season. Most of our neighbours harvested nothing. The rains let them down and they lost everything they planted.

I don't take that lightly. It could easily have been us. One acre on one farm doesn't prove anything on its own, and I can't tell you for sure what made the difference. What I know is how we grew it: a variety we can replant, manure from our own goats instead of bought fertiliser, and no synthetic pesticides. Less money went into the ground, so there was less to lose.

Here's the part I care about most now. We're not selling this maize as grain. We're selecting the best cobs, drying them well and storing them properly so they can be planted again. 1,300 kg is enough seed to plant a very large area, and in a season when so many farmers have lost both their crop and their seed, clean seed may be worth more than grain.

My question for you: what would be a fair way to get seed to farmers who lost everything this season? Lending seed that is repaid after harvest, a village seed bank, or something else? 👇

Uganda used to queue for sugar from Kenya. Today we make more than 800,000 tonnes a year, with around 300,000 tonnes mor...
13/10/2026

Uganda used to queue for sugar from Kenya. Today we make more than 800,000 tonnes a year, with around 300,000 tonnes more than we need. That's a real achievement.

But here's what happened this year: sugar sales to Kenya dropped from about $41 million to about $12 million in a single quarter, after Kenya raised duties and pushed its own sugar industry. One neighbour changed its rules, and most of that income disappeared.

What works from here is simple to say and takes discipline to do:
• Sell to more places, not just one big neighbour
• Turn some of the sugar into products that earn more, like industrial sugar for breweries and bakeries, and ethanol
• Fix the roads, borders and storage that make faraway markets reachable

Making enough is the first step. Having several doors to sell through is what keeps the money coming when one of them closes.

If you work in sugar, cane growing or transport, which door do you think Uganda should open next? 👇

Here's good news with a lesson inside it.Uganda's fresh fruits and vegetables used to get turned back at foreign borders...
13/10/2026

Here's good news with a lesson inside it.

Uganda's fresh fruits and vegetables used to get turned back at foreign borders often. In all of 2022, 105 shipments were rejected or held. In just the first six months of 2026, that number was 33. That means fewer farmers and exporters losing a whole shipment to a mistake that could have been caught earlier, through better handling, cleaner packing and proper checks before the produce leaves.

Here's another example. A factory in Uganda sent 104 tonnes of canned pineapple to China in May, a first for us. The part that matters to farmers: the factory buys pineapples about six months after planting, while the usual route often meant waiting around eighteen months to get paid. When a buyer is already waiting for your crop, you plant with confidence and you get paid sooner.

And at Entebbe airport, a shared centre for preparing fresh produce and coffee for export is being set up, so smaller exporters don't each have to build their own.

Better checks, a buyer waiting at the other end, and shared facilities: that's what makes exports repeat instead of happening once.

If you grow for export or sell to a processor, what has made the biggest difference for you? 👇

28/09/2026

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