MUGOYA DIHFAHSIH

How Digital Agriculture can help Uganda Grow and attain Middle Class George Muwereza lives in Uganda on the island of Kalanga in Lake Victoria. He used to cut and sell wood but was just eking out a living for himself and his family. Since 2007, George has been farming palm for oil and over the past 10 years has been able to establish a steady income. He has a bank account (which he accesses through his mobile device), is in the process of building a bigger home for his family and can afford to send his children to better schools. In short, George is middle class. But George’s journey to becoming a thriving oil palm farmer was not accidental. The Ugandan government has been promoting the development of the vegetable oil sector in Uganda since 1998 through its Vegetable Oil Development Project (VODP). With support from the  International Fund for Agricultural Development  -- a financial agency within the United Nations that invests in rural projects aimed at eradicating ...

5 years now, How Kampala is accepting the 6 ride-hailing companies to operate. Image via Arabian Business In 2014, SafeBoda opened the door to the ride-hailing industry in Kampala, Uganda. SafeBoda started with five riders.  Ricky Papa Thomson , a co-founder of SafeBoda and a former Boda Boda rider was the sixth. Today, SafeBoda is 4 years and some months old and it is the most prominent ride-hailing company on Kampala streets. Thousands of riders have since joined the company. 2 years after SafeBoda’s launch in Kampala, Uber, which had been in Africa for three years, made Uganda its third country for continental expansion after South Africa and Kenya. But unlike SafeBoda which focused on motorcycles, Uber introduced digital hailing of car taxis. A year and four months after  Uber entered into Kampala , the Estonia-based ride-hailing company, Taxify, on October 27, 2017, also hit the market to compete with Uber first and later, SafeBoda. In February of...