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Our Background
After attending the FAO organized International Conference on Agricultural Statistics -ICAS VII conference in Rome,Oct 2016 and presenting a paper on Post Harvest Loss Control in Uganda, the experience gotten from Rome led our founder to do more thorough ground research and he engaged the would be target beneficiaries after all these processes Farm Kiosk was birthed in Aug 2018 whilst putting to test a series of practical knowledge the company was Incorporated in March 2019 and our Mobile App was launched in Oct 2019 working on a philosophy of creating a borderless agribusiness space in Uganda and across East Africa.
About Farm Kiosk
Farm Kiosk is a Ugandan registered agribusiness social enterprise which has online platforms both web portal and Mobile App as the main service channels connecting farmers to out takers of their farm produce, providing farmers with modern agribusiness practical information and also linking people who are interested in practicing agribusiness but do not own land with people leasing out their land purposely for agribusiness in any part of the country.
Farm Kiosk has different profiling features which helps us to identify the type of produce specific farmers in specific locations are to deal in, in a specific season and their anticipated harvest period which enables us to keep track of their progress throughout the season and in turn this informs our linkage services with a wide range of value chain actors from pre production to post production and in abid to improve traceability and quality checks from pick up points to consumption points we are integrating a tracking feature in our system.
The Global Web Index as of Jan 2021 shows that 60% of Uganda’s population has access to mobile phones and 24% of the population has access to the internet and the trends are surging high each passing day because of the new normal brought about by COVID 19.
Farm Kiosk is mostly targeting these young people with the evolving economic, environmental, technological and social conditions in Uganda, Africa and the world at large .
Farm Kiosk is on course of implementing our 5 year Strategic Plan (SP) 2020/2025 which we revised in June 2020 to accommodate the shocks of COVID 19 and beyond, our SP highlights the strategic priorities to meet the new realities brought about by COVID 19 pandemic .
However, our vision, mission and core values and philosophy remain the same all addressing the current conditions facing the agribusiness sector in Uganda, East Africa and Africa at large as such, the vision, mission and philosophy of Farm Kiosk is more critical than ever. Adapting to this volatile and uncertain global economy especially in the post COVID-19 requires flexibility, adaptability, resiliency, and innovation.
Farm Kiosk is a Ugandan registered agribusiness social enterprise which has online platforms both web portal and Mobile App as the main service channels connecting farmers to out takers of their farm produce, providing farmers with modern agribusiness practical information and also linking people who are interested in practicing agribusiness but do not own land with people leasing out their land purposely for agribusiness in any part of the country.
Farm Kiosk has different profiling features which helps us to identify the type of produce specific farmers in specific locations are to deal in, in a specific season and their anticipated harvest period which enables us to keep track of their progress throughout the season and in turn this informs our linkage services with a wide range of value chain actors from pre production to post production and in abid to improve traceability and quality checks from pick up points to consumption points we are integrating a tracking feature in our system.
The Global Web Index as of Jan 2021 shows that 60% of Uganda’s population has access to mobile phones and 24% of the population has access to the internet and the trends are surging high each passing day because of the new normal brought about by COVID 19.
Farm Kiosk is mostly targeting these young people with the evolving economic, environmental, technological and social conditions in Uganda, Africa and the world at large .
Farm Kiosk is on course of implementing our 5 year Strategic Plan (SP) 2020/2025 which we revised in June 2020 to accommodate the shocks of COVID 19 and beyond, our SP highlights the strategic priorities to meet the new realities brought about by COVID 19 pandemic .
However, our vision, mission and core values and philosophy remain the same all addressing the current conditions facing the agribusiness sector in Uganda, East Africa and Africa at large as such, the vision, mission and philosophy of Farm Kiosk is more critical than ever. Adapting to this volatile and uncertain global economy especially in the post COVID-19 requires flexibility, adaptability, resiliency, and innovation.
