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The Future is Now
Born and raised in Mpigi District, Mulindwa stevens parents used the income from the family owned banana plantation to put him through school until University when unfortunately, the banana plantation yields couldn’t generate enough income to pay for his tuition for the last year. Steven decided to get some practical experience for the course he was studying on campus by getting hands on training from Agromax.
During his time with us he was intrigued by banana agronomy and he was introduced to tissue culture as an alternative to the traditional method of propagation used widely.
Steven developed such a passion for tissue culture that he has now set up a mother garden for banana multiplication and wants to see that clean planting materials are distributed; He is setting up a tissue culture laboratory with a vision of producing half million banana seedlings annually.
Pursuing my Passion
As a farm manager majorly growing vegetables Tendo Henry was constantly facing low yields due to incidences of pests and diseases and erratic weather which made it impossible for the farm to break even. He decided to enrol with Agromax to better understand farm management.
Henry asserts that during the training, he was able to learn about the ins and outs of irrigation he says that he learnt much about the principles of farm management and its applicability to his farm.
Henry returned to his farm, installed the irrigation system by himself and his crops doing much better with him seeing 60% increase in yields. He has also transformed his farm as a training centre where many youths are coming to learn about the methods of training. He is now working with averagely 12 apprentices per year.
Hope for the future
Belinda, 28 years of age, is a resident of Makindye, a suburb in Kampala and a single mother of 2 children was struggling to support her family from her meagre earnings from doing odd jobs like vending clothes. Belinda decided to pursue a career in agriculture. Rather than investing her capital into another venture without research and enough knowledge, she decided to enroll with us under the Skilling of youth program.
Belinda says, the training equipped her with not only the required knowledge and skills to pursue agribusiness, but also created excitement in her that came with seeing the fruits of her labour.
She registered and launched her purple fruits company soon after leaving Agromax which is currently in operation and growing. She supplies over 500 kgs of fresh vegetables and fruits every week and is currently earning a modest income. She says,’’ with what I earn, am in better position to take care of myself and my two children’’.
