Hunger Project boot camp urges Northern Uganda youth to take up agribusiness
The Hunger Project-Uganda ran a two-day boot camp in Gulu City for young people aged 18 to 35. It urged them to process, package and market cassava, maize and sorghum, and some youth groups received seed capital.
Young people in Northern Uganda are being urged to treat farming as a business. The Hunger Project-Uganda held a two-day agribusiness boot camp in Gulu City, Nile Post reported. The training focused on value addition, processing, packaging and marketing, not just growing crops. The boot camp is part of the organisation's two-year Youth Agriculture Entrepreneurship Programme (YAEP). It targets people aged 18 to 35, especially unemployed youth and those who struggle to get land. The aim is to help them turn cassava, maize and sorghum into profitable ventures. Evelyn Namubiru Tondo, head of programmes at The Hunger Project-Uganda, said the programme aims to change how young people see agriculture. "We want young people to see agriculture as a business, not punishment," she told Nile Post. She said young people should look at the whole value chain, including financial management. Denis Mukomasi, the programme's focal person in Nwoya District, said participants are being linked to government institutions and private…
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