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27/08/2026

Here's a good news story worth sharing, with an honest twist at the end.

Over the last five years, Uganda's milk production nearly doubled. But here's the part that really tells the story: money earned from dairy exports grew even faster, nearly tripling in the same period. Uganda didn't just produce more milk. We built over 140 processing plants to turn that milk into export-ready products, and then went out and signed real deals including one with Nigeria worth close to $1 billion for milk powder, and earlier shipments opening up markets like Algeria.

That's what happens when you don't stop at "grow more". You build the processing and go find the buyer too.

But here's the honest part: even with all those processing plants built, they're only running at about 69% of their full capacity. Meaning the plants can handle more milk than they're currently getting. The missing piece now isn't factories or foreign buyers it's getting more of our smallholder farmers' milk collected reliably and consistently into that system.

Dairy shows what's possible when the whole chain gets built. It also shows exactly where the next opportunity is sitting.

If you're in dairy farming or milk collection, what's been your biggest challenge — getting milk to a collection point or getting fair prices once it's there?

Quiet but important news this week: Uganda wants to stop depending on Kenya to get our own farm produce to market.A new ...
26/08/2026

Quiet but important news this week: Uganda wants to stop depending on Kenya to get our own farm produce to market.

A new government logistics plan wants to turn the Busia and Malaba border crossings into proper logistics stations with cold storage, quality testing labs, and packing facilities right there at the border. There's even a plan for "green lanes" so refrigerated trucks carrying fresh produce don't sit in the same slow queue as everything else.

Why does this matter to ordinary farmers and traders? Because right now, a truck of tomatoes, matooke, or fish heading for export can sit for hours at the border — and every hour in the heat is value disappearing before the product even reaches a customer. Uganda grows enough. What we've been missing is a smooth, fast, well-equipped path to get it out.

This is the unglamorous side of agribusiness nobody puts on a poster — border logistics, cold storage, packaging — but it's often the difference between a farmer getting paid well and a farmer watching produce spoil in a truck.

If you've ever exported or moved produce across our borders, I'd love to hear what that experience has actually been like. 👇

There's a quiet but important initiative expanding across Eastern Uganda right now.ESAFF Uganda — the Eastern and Southe...
25/08/2026

There's a quiet but important initiative expanding across Eastern Uganda right now.

ESAFF Uganda — the Eastern and Southern Africa Small-scale Farmers' Forum is scaling up its Community Agroecology Schools in districts like Kumi, Mayuge, Mbale, and Bugiri. The goal: help small-scale farmers reduce their dependence on expensive synthetic fertilisers and pesticides, restore soil fertility naturally, and build farming systems that can withstand Uganda's increasingly unpredictable weather.

This matters because Eastern Uganda has always been one of the country's most productive farming regions. But years of declining soil health and climate shocks have started eating into that advantage. Agroecology combining indigenous farming knowledge with modern environmental practices is a genuine, low-cost way to rebuild that resilience from the ground up.

Here's the honest addition I'd make to this good news, from the commercial side of agribusiness.

Training a farmer to grow with fewer synthetic inputs, healthier soil, and more resilience to drought is real progress. It lowers costs and protects yields both of which matter enormously to a smallholder's bottom line. But agroecological and organic produce usually carries a market premium too, often well above conventional prices depending on the crop and buyer. That premium only reaches the farmer if there's a certified, aggregated, and traceable route connecting the farm to a buyer who actually pays for the difference.

Without that commercial layer, a farmer using excellent agroecological practices can still end up selling into the same undifferentiated local market as everyone else all the extra care, none of the extra income.

Growing better is the foundation. Selling better is what turns that foundation into a farm that is genuinely self-sustaining, profitable, and able to expand.

There's a story developing right now that hits close to home for anyone in trade dozens of rice trucks have been strande...
25/08/2026

There's a story developing right now that hits close to home for anyone in trade dozens of rice trucks have been stranded at the Mutukula border for two weeks. Not because there's no rice. Because of who controls the import permit.

Rice traders across the country have been asking government to step in over how the Ministry of Trade issues permits for rice imports. So far, only 25 permits have gone out, through an online application system that many genuine traders say has locked them out entirely.

And it gets more complicated. The Kampala Rice Traders Association says a new class of brokers has emerged around the permit system people who don't import a single grain of rice and carry none of the commercial risk, but profit by "clearing" consignments for traders who do. Worse, some traders allege these brokers under-declare cargo to the Uganda Revenue Authority. Tell them you have 40 tonnes, they file 35. When URA weighs the truck at the border, it's the importer who gets fined for the gap not the broker who filed the paperwork.

So traders refused to keep using them. The result: dozens of trucks parked at the border for two weeks, transport costs climbing by the day, storage charges piling up, and loan repayments still due on cargo that hasn't moved an inch.

If you've ever run a trading business, you know exactly what that means. It's not just a delay. It's your financing cost eating your margin in real time, while the product that's supposed to generate revenue sits idle at a border post.

This is the part of "market access" that never makes it into the glossy value-chain diagrams. It's not just about finding a buyer or having a good product. It's about whether the system that lets your goods cross a border is transparent, predictable, and actually built for the people doing the real business not for whoever controls the gate.

Any trader, importer, or exporter reading this knows this story in some form, even if the product is different.

Two stories came out of Uganda's agribusiness sector today that need to be read together.The first: Uganda's government ...
20/08/2026

Two stories came out of Uganda's agribusiness sector today that need to be read together.

The first: Uganda's government mechanisation programme, the plan to bring tractors and equipment to farming communities across the country, has been exposed. Findings reveal a trail of disorder: no guidelines for how the equipment should be used, missing revenue records, and broken systems at MAAIF-managed mechanisation centres.

The second is that Stanbic Bank and agribusiness leaders have united to fight counterfeit agricultural inputs, fake seeds, substandard pesticides, and counterfeit fertilisers that are quietly destroying farm productivity and food security.

Both stories are saying the same thing.

Uganda's agribusiness sector is not failing because ambition is absent. The investment happened. The tractors arrived. The inputs were procured. The policy was written.

It is failing because the commercial systems, governance, and accountability infrastructure underneath the investment were never built.

A tractor in a centre with no utilisation guidelines, no revenue records, and no commercial structure earns nothing. Fake inputs enter the supply chain precisely because the legitimate input market has no reliable quality assurance infrastructure. The gap is not the product. It is the system around it.

This is the pattern Mivule Business Solutions was built to diagnose — and to fix.

Most agribusiness founders in Uganda face a smaller version of the same problem every day. The equipment is there. The product is real. The ambition is genuine. And then: no pipeline, no pricing discipline, no commercial accountability, no one running the side of the business that converts the investment into a return.

The commercial side is always the last thing built. And always the most expensive thing to fix after the damage is done.

Somewhat genuinely good news out of Kampala yesterday.NARO announced its breeding new maize varieties for Uganda's highl...
20/08/2026

Somewhat genuinely good news out of Kampala yesterday.

NARO announced its breeding new maize varieties for Uganda's highland areas that mature in just 90 to 120 days down from the 5 to 6 months ordinary highland maize currently takes because of the cooler conditions. That's not a small improvement. It means farmers can fit in more planting cycles on the same piece of land without needing to expand into new acreage. Uganda currently produces about 5 million tonnes of maize a year. The government's target is 10 million tonnes within five years.

What caught my attention most, though, was the second part of the announcement: these new varieties are also being bred with high starch content and other traits suited for ethanol production and industrial use. In other words, this isn't just seed for the kitchen. It's seed designed with processing in mind from the start.

That matters, because we've spent the last few weeks following a very different maize story traders and a processing factory in Luweero locked in a payment dispute that's now gone all the way to a High Court order, with Shs2.6 billion still unpaid for maize supplied months ago.

Here's the honest truth sitting between those two stories: better seed varieties are a genuine win for farmers. But a seed bred for industrial processing only pays off if the processing, payment, and market systems around it can actually be trusted. A farmer who plants a faster-maturing crop and gets three harvests instead of two still needs somewhere reliable to sell every single one of them.

This is why the new AgriConnect framework being discussed this week aimed at closing gaps from the farm all the way through to processing and market access is worth watching closely. Good seed is the starting point. What happens after harvest is where most Ugandan farmers actually lose value.

18/08/2026

Today's report from Mbarara: milk supply has collapsed by more than half in a matter of weeks.

Where the city used to collect 20,000 litres of milk a day, it's now getting between 5,000 and 8,000. Prolonged drought has dried up pasture and water. An anthrax outbreak has put neighbouring districts under quarantine. Retail prices have jumped from Shs1,200 to Shs2,500 a litre — and some farmers, desperate to keep up volumes, have reportedly started watering down their milk.

Cooling centres and processing plants that used to open at 6am and run until 10pm are now opening at 10am and closing by 6pm. One dairy manager said factory intake has dropped from 200,000 litres a day to just 120,000 and that the milk arriving is thinner, lower quality, harder to work with.

But here's the line in the story that matters most. The city's Production Officer said part of the problem isn't only the weather it's that farmers "don't want to carry out group farming" to manage production and price shocks together.

That's the real story underneath the headline.

A drought will always come. Disease outbreaks will always happen. What determines whether a dairy region survives that shock or loses half its supply overnight is whether farmers, cooling centres, and processors are working as one connected system, or as individual operators each absorbing the same risk alone.

Group farming isn't just about togetherness. It's about shared feed storage, shared water harvesting, shared bargaining power when prices swing, and a collection system with enough scale to keep running even when some farms are struggling.

Mbarara is known as the City of Milk and Honey. This season is a hard reminder that production alone doesn't protect that reputation the system built around it does.

If you're in dairy, livestock, or any value chain that depends on collective strength to survive a bad season what would it take for your community to build that system before the next shock, not during it?

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