 We started off this business in 2011, together with my wife and supported by my elder brother. Our business is a commercial undertaking and we grow our buds from zero to 40 days depending on the need of the customers and we are contracted farmers to the largest tabatwa in Uganda. We employ about 12 staff. Should you wish to venture into agribusiness in Uganda on a commercial scale, it is profitable. It is a big business. And secondly, should you ever wish to have a friend that you would like to consult with, we have a model that can help you corporatize or implement your own projects, even without returning to live and work on the project in Uganda. The farm here is 32 acres and it is a mixed farm. So part of the land we use for grazing, part of it we use for crops. We focus on two sides, we focus on the social side as well as on the agriculture side. Our objective is mainly to merge the younger generation and the older generation, focusing both on agriculture as a source of income and a way of living. When we bring in the older people, the older people help to show the young ones skills they used to use and why. So we are trying to merge both generations and the skills plus the skills I get or got from abroad and bring them into one pot here. I have a shivuji, so many skills of farming like ways of planting bananas, digging pits, putting in maniwa, mixing them so that we can get high income. For people who are living abroad, I would encourage you to invest in agriculture. If you invest in Uganda, I think you would have made a very, very big difference to our country, to our people and to yourself because you come back to somewhere which has progressed in a direction you really would like to see it go to. My objective was to promote farming as a business for farmers, so I really started by working with only 15 widows and we saw that number growing up very quickly to 1000 farmers, eventually to 11,000 farmers who were producing only chili in about 11 districts in eastern Uganda. I also wanted to move away from working only on one crop which was chili and to integrate another crop which is a long-term crop and I chose koko with the aim of course of getting as many farmers engaged in koko production as possible. Well, I started with something like 2000 plants of kokoa. I have 20 acres, 9 is kofi and 3 is kokoa. Now I'm harvesting on 100 kokoa trees. The price is good. We know in the future we are to be getting a very good price. I'm in a business of research and development. We're into biotechnology. Currently we're researching on different products adding value to agriculture. One of the products we're doing at the moment is hair. This hair is made from banana fiber. What we're doing at the moment going around in the country telling banana producers that we will buy the sodastem from you, we show them if they want to do the extraction from themselves, we show them how they do the extraction and then they sell us the fiber. So far we have about 16 koi, some are casual, some are full-time. I would thank the people in the Aspera who have been involved in investing back in Uganda because we need to bring our money and our effort back to where we came from and also to create jobs for our people. Secondly, I would encourage them to invest in agribusiness because that way we are producing food and we can add value. I'd like to thank Uganda Agribusiness Alliance and Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN for availing the opportunity to me and us the people from the diaspora to be able to talk to people out there who want to know how to contribute to Uganda, we still have a chance to operate in Uganda and to invest in Uganda and to work with Ugandans to break certain cycles like poverty. There's a lot out there that is happening that is not being recorded so this enables us to tell our story to Ugandans and to those in the diaspora, even beyond Ugandans to share a story of endurance and lastly to share our little success story so far with the people in the local sector that agribusiness is a business, agribusiness done well commercially is profitable. Agribusiness is profitable and can be a full time job. I'm very very glad that they came across us and we won this award and it's going to push us far because we've been sweating for so many years putting this product on the market but at least there's a recognition that people are going to be aware of what we're doing and why we're doing it. Agriculture is something that we have to take really seriously but with the aim of doing it to the next level. Let us say, let us create those small jobs, do your little garden, plant your cocoa, plant your herbs, plant your coffee, plant your whatever but the soil is there, we are blessed to have it so that's my advice, my little contribution. This award was the first but we look forward to continue to work with Uganda Agribusiness Alliance and with other partners to help identify where we do have opportunities to present Uganda diaspora as opportunities for them to come and for them to look at agriculture sector as one key important sector that will definitely push Uganda to the middle income state. Agribusiness Alliance