2025 Harvest Money Book is a sumptuous menu for farmers

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If farming is your passion or business, then the 2025 Best Farmers book is your essential companion.

This edition is packed with profiles of Uganda’s most innovative farmers and practical advice on value addition, co-operatives and modern farming techniques.

It is not merely a book; it is a tool for transformation. The book, published by Vision Group, was officially launched on Wednesday during the prestigious Best Farmers Awards.

It contains 50 detailed profiles of Uganda’s top farmers from the 2025 competition and 30 actionable farming tips tailored to help one scale one’s agribusiness. It also includes insights aligned with this year’s theme: Value Addition and Cooperatives.

Why value addition?

“Farmers sell all their produce raw. Yet, if they added value, it would earn them more money and improve their farms,” Wanyama says.

Therefore, the book does not simply explain why, but also demonstrates how one can add value to one’s products and earn more.

“The book carries stories from across the country, so there is something for everybody,” Joshua Kato, the editorial coordinator, says.

Kato emphasises that the book covers all priority agricultural enterprises, divided into 10 chapters, including dairy farming, goat keeping, horticulture, beekeeping, poultry, coffee growing, maize and grains, bananas, as well as cooperatives.

The book also covers value addition on bananas, fruits, honey, poultry, maize, eggs, mushrooms and other enterprises. Beyond farming techniques, this book is a souvenir of inspiration.

“The book is full of stories of inspiration. Ideas that started as personal dreams before they became thriving businesses,” the Vision Group editor-in-chief, Barbra Kaija, says.

The book is available at Vision Group bureaus, vendors nationwide and major bookstores such as Aristoc Booklex.

What is in the book

Some of the inspirational profiles, who were also winners in this year’s Best Farmers Competition, include:

• Hood Kiwana Kasirye, a former banker now excelling in dairy and poultry.
• Joan Else Kantu, who turns cocoa into chocolate for the tourism market.
• Zubairi Mukaaya, who hatches4Dem Farm, an association of siblings managing 120,000 chickens.
• Itungo Farms, which grows pastures on a commercial scale and produces livestock pellets from hay, maize bran, soy cake, cottonseed cake and ghee residues.
• Nelly Turyamuhebwa’s farm, blending dairy, bananas and a boutique hotel.