Farmers spend a wonderful week in the Netherlands
Jun 27, 2017
They had a lot of revelations and lessons in equal measure as they visited farmers.
The pictures tell the entire story. For six days, the 2016 best farmers toured the kingdom of the Netherlands.
They had a lot of revelations and lessons in equal measure as they visited farmers.
They also had fun, visiting the beach on the North sea and tasting Dutch cuisine in different restaurants around the country.
The farmers were in the Netherlands, courtesy of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Uganda, dfcu Bank, KLM Airlines and Vision Group.
The Netherlands is the second highest exporter of agriculture produce in the world, after the United States of America.
The Netherlands, though, as small as Central Uganda ,did not achieve this feat without a lot of innovating.
The visiting farmers saw a lot of innovations-including automation across all sectors. For example, chicken are automatically fed, cattle barns are automatically cleaned.
The farmers saw a lot of value addition both on the farm and in processing plants of any sizes too.
The farmers vowed to carry some of this knowledge back home.