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Unlocking the potential of Agribusiness: dfcu’s Agribusiness Development Centre leads the way

Charles Mudiwa, dfcu Bank’s CEO (L) and Karim Boven, the ADC patron, and Ambassador of the Kingdom of Netherlands (R) at the graduation of the 2nd and 3rd cohorts of Business Accelerator Program.

Since its establishment in 2018, the dfcu’s Agribusiness Development Centre (ADC) has been at the helm of transforming the landscape of agribusiness in Uganda by making sure that farmer organisations and individuals in agribusiness are self-sufficient. Through Agribusiness centre’s comprehensive business development programs, the centre has helped over 800 enterprises and 27,00 smallholder farms to increase their productivity, access to markets and also mitigate risks in their business.  With its focus on gender and youth empowerment, the centre has produced remarkable results with an average of 50% trained youth and women going on to assume management positions. This has increased…

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Paul Murungi is a Ugandan Business Journalist with extensive financial journalism training from institutions in South Africa, London (UK), Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda. His coverage focuses on groundbreaking stories across the East African region with a focus on ICT, Energy, Oil and Gas, Mining, Companies, Capital and Financial markets, and the General Economy.

His body of work has contributed to policy change in private and public companies.

Paul has so far won five continental awards at the Sanlam Group Awards for Excellence in Financial Journalism in Johannesburg, South Africa, and several Uganda national journalism awards for his articles on business and technology at the ACME Awards.

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