THE NETHERLANDS TOUR: MINISTER BALAAM BENCHMARKS FROM VARIOUS FARMS

a good milk as part of his working tour to the Netherlands the youth and children affairs minister Dr barara has visited various entrepreneurs this gentleman the owner of this Farm is making 1 million L of milk every year and his cow one cow can give you 70 L the minimum it can give is 32 l so he says he makes €500,000 every year translating to to two billion Uganda Shilling but they only 90 cows so what does this mean with one acre the president talks about to can do the same thing these are ranging from SM to L scale Farmers today we are at the farm uh where we are having a tour a DCH farmer who is only having himself and his wife working with more than 100 cows um so our farmers are getting motivated um today we are having this farm and we shall be going to the company that makes the fits which this farm this CS are eting so that we can also see the whole very chain and after that we shall see uh be visiting a farm that is uh McKing and at the end of the day U making cheese and uh everything that comes out of M Mr pal is in compan of the State House control J and other members from the Ugandan community so pleased and happy and also surprised always every year the enthusiasm the the the honest honest interest in the farmers and um I really like that all the ugandans coming here see potential see opportunities of the stuff they learn here and which they can bring back to to their own country this is what we want from to in in Uganda so that farmers can get value of their products uh by selling um value with products with added value for the ugana delegation is more interested in benchmarking on how best UK Dan back home can tap into this first knowledge I think the any farmer or any agricultural business is the backbone of of a country without Farmers well at the end there's nothing because we all need food and there's so much more opportunity so much more development uh um that is possible within a country of Uganda uh efficiency can be more but also more people can work in the agricultural business like we have here in H you see the farmer that is doing his job here together with his wife took over the company from his parents that took over from his parents so for me agriculture bus is the future so what have we learned here the gentleman has a total of 90 Acres but he's using part of half of the land for growing hay or grass this grass so he dries the grass F gets it and the cows are enjoying it then he adds a few a few a few supplements so those are the things that we need to learn as ugan the more we learn the more we visit the more we Benchmark I pledge I start a similar project in kalala or in Mas so that other people can learn from we don't need too much landar the Netherlands V is entirely facilitated by the State House of Uganda with Minister barara representing president yam robang UBC news one year and