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Month: September 2023

CHALLENGE – 2 – How do I reduce waste and take quality to the next level?

Here I will continue addressing the challenges facing Isatu's Hope on her farm in Sierra Leoner.  The first challenge was:  How to increase yield per acre?  Now we will take a look at her second challenge:  How do I reduce waste and take quality to the next level? As stated in the original post, waste and quality is a challenge facing every business. Waste can be found in every area of the business, both in terms of time and resources. It is interesting, that if you take a close look, waste can be a resource. First, we will go over a [...]

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Building a career in agriculture! – 1

For the past weeks, we have been in West Africa, talking to people in Ghana, Cameroon, and Sierra Leone.  Without leaving that region completely behind, we are going to jump east and drop in on Ivan Bavuga, from the Western Region of Uganda. His farm, Ivan Balinda's Agriculture, Research, and Innovation farm, is a mixed farm including crops and animals, sitting on four hectares of land.  Ivan has been involved in agriculture for about three years and did not take the usual route into this career.  As I have mentioned many times on these pages, most people enter agriculture as per default, that [...]

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