The Farmers Daughter

Victoria Sekitoleko grew up on a farm in Uganda. She spent her childhood running through the fields under the warm African sun, so farming is what she does, knows, thinks about, and talks about. It is what she believes in. After a career dedicated to agriculture and agribusiness in Uganda, including service as minister of agriculture, she brings us her new book  A Farmer’s Daughter. Victoria wrote this book because she believes that agriculture has the potential to keep Uganda moving forward economically. In A Farmer’s Daughter, Victoria goes into detail on how the potential in agribusiness offers every Ugandan a way to create a better future for themselves. Uganda has many natural resources: agriculture, forestry, and fish farming to name but a few. It also  has the added bonus of a wealth of human resource skills—smart, willing, hard-working men, women and young people whose capacity is under-utilised and whose potential contributions to Uganda’s agribusiness are untapped. In this book, Victoria also identifies areas of investment in Uganda agribusiness, including infrastructure, mobile networking, health care, as well as oil. The same good weather, good rainfall, and temperate climate that blesses Uganda will create opportunities for many to benefit from the gold of the future: food and energy.