Agricultural Empowerment for Rural Farmers

NKobazambogo Farmers Group.
Is a community based group in manyama village, mateete sub county , Sembabule district .
It started in 2014 as a VSLA aiming at improving peoples standards of living more so women, at the start they were five women , by 2015, a number increased at a terrific speed to 40 people and by 2017, a curve reduced to thirty four members till now. In 2019, they were advised by COSMA to start up side income generating business and fortunately, they agreed and start catering service in July, 2021.Unfortunately in that very year, the COVID 19 pandemic came across and distorted everything , and immediately they resorted to farming, where they agreed to grow tomatoes on a small scale and in phases so that they can hit the market. They continued to narrate that some of the reasons as they resorted to tomato growing are:
Presence of COSMA as financial assistant
Presence of skilled personal in them.
3 Some of the materials to use are locally available like mulching materials.
4 Availability of market.
They expect to earn around 120000 to 400000 per 100kg box. So they engaged in that business after realizing that it is so profitable. However they expect challenges like
Unfriendly weather i.e. too much sunshine
Floating of the commodity
For the first phase, Nkobazambogo yield 22.5 boxes and sold at one hundred eighty thousand shillings per box making four million fifty thousand shillings though they were expecting to earn around six million shillings but still they continued with the business since they made some profits, as they invested in 1.7m and other factors like the presence of financial assistant among others as mentioned above.