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To boost value addition, 'train farmers and revive co-operatives'
"There is a knowledge gap on the ground level. There is a need to provide farmers with the right information because this knowledge hardly reaches the ground where farmers are situated,” said Ssali.
Prof. Sarah Ssali of Makerere University (not in the picture) says farmers sell everything at harvesting because of storage challenges. (New Vision/File)
By: NewVision Reporter, Journalists @NewVision
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The bulk of traded agricultural products from Uganda are in raw form, implying that there is limited value addition.
This is partly attributed to the