Contract farming can be defined as an agreement between farmers and processing and/or marketing firms for the production and supply of agricultural products under forwarding agreements, frequently at predetermined prices.
Currently, Agro-Tourism Association contracts over 45,000 smallholder farmers engaged in the production of sorghum, sesame, and barley in the sub-regions of Teso, Lango, Acholi, and West Nile, Sebei Kigezi, and Karamoja. The model below is what Agro-Tourism Association adopted to enable effective implementation.
Hassan Okiror, Agro-Tourism Association’s for Asamuku sub-county, in Amuria district presenting on the strategies to ensure an increase in productivity from his farmers during the strategic meeting
Extreme left (Standing) is Brenda and Elizabeth, Agro-Tourism Association staff. Extreme right standing after a meeting with contacted farmers in Sorghum Value Chain a week before the COVID-19 pandemic which later resulted in total lockdown.
Ruhakana Joseph Taremwa, CEO Agro-Tourism Association on the left with Stella also from Agro-Tourism Association during the monitoring visit with contacted sorghum farmers in Soroti district, Eastern Uganda last week.
