“The Harvest Money Expo is considered as Uganda's biggest annual agriculture and agribusiness exhibition and offers exhibitors an excellent opportunity for increasing visibility and networking,” said Sylvia Nakanyike Mukasa, Access Agriculture Entrepreneur Coach for Uganda.
The 2025 Harvest Money Expo, held in Kampala, Uganda, 14-16 February, brought together over 200 agricultural exhibitors who showcased a wide range of agricultural products, machinery, and services. It was organised by Vision Group in partnership with the Netherlands Embassy under the theme ‘Farming as a business: Value addition and Cooperatives.’
The Access Agriculture team, led by Sylvia and two Entrepreneurs for Rural Access (ERAs) – Martha Kyokuhaire from Hoima and Ruth Akuo from Buikwe – set up a stall under the ‘Agroecology Village’, in partnership with Participatory Ecological Land Use Management (PELUM)-Uganda at the 2025 Harvest Money Expo.
The team showed to the large number of visitors who visited the stall, the full range of knowledge resources of Access Agriculture, including its digital platforms and tools, and explained how the ERAs in Uganda are delivering digital extension and advisory services using the Smart Projector to screen farmer-to-farmer training videos in local languages.
The ERAs in Uganda are working under the Global Programme for Small-scale Agroecology Producers and Sustainable Food Systems Transformation (GP-SAEP) Project, which aims to support the transition of over 2,500 farmers in Uganda to agroecology through rural advisory services.
The ERAs used the opportunity provided by the Expo to network with potential partners and clients, and interacted with farmer cooperative members, vocational institutes, non-government organisations, representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries (MAAIF), the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO), the Uganda Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (UFAAS), the National Organic Agricultural Movement of Uganda (NOGAMU), the Uganda Youth Development Network as well as teachers and students from various schools and institutions.
“The visitors to the Access Agriculture stall expressed a strong interest in partnering with Access Agriculture to benefit from the translated videos and viewed the ERA model as an opportunity to complement government extension services and the new school curriculum,” said Sylvia.
