Biddemu Bazil Mwotta, a graduate teacher from Makerere University and currently at the same university pursuing a second degree in Law, is many things like his education background has shown you.

Inspired by the society around him, coupled with a constant urge to leave a mark on the world and make it better, Mwotta birthed AgroDuuka Limited – a youth-led agro-based social enterprise to aid farmers in the pursuit of income and profit for their labour on the farm.

“My mother is a farmer, I grew up helping her on the farm. It is here that I realised that farmers as well as herself were being exploited by middle men who bought from her farm produce at a cheap price and sold to towns at very exorbitant prices.” Mwotta recalls with a very calm voice.

His innovation, Mwotta says, was therefore hinged on the goal of helping farmers find credible market for their farm produce. Credible in the sense that they’d get value for their produce and availability in subsequent seasons.

“A farmer only needs to send us a message expressing intention to sell her farm produce, we then connect them to a credible buyer.” He added.

Mwotta set up a place in Mpigi District to act as the premises of his start-up and since December 12th 2017, he has watched membership to his group grow to a current 1,300 farmers. He says fairer agricultural transactions between the sellers and buyers with a promise of consequent market reliability are the goals that have driven him and his colleagues to work for their society.

Because of that, AgroDuuka Ltd has not only helped farmers get market for their produce but equipped them with necessary knowledge and skills to suit the produce needed on the market and ensure the latter’s (market) availability to increase profits for the farmers.

AgroDuuka has been in the farmers’ eyes so much that at the moment there are teams, attached to it in villages where it has been able to reach, constantly engaging farmers in aspects of increased profitability and how they can practice better methods of agriculture to attract market for their produce.

Between 2nd and 30th April this year, AgroDuuka organised an agricultural campaign in Mawokota (Mpigi) where they equipped over 1500 farmers in the region with knowledge and skills for modern farming as well as inculcating technology with a mission to increase farm yields.

His innovation, for caring to help predominantly illiterate farmers that would otherwise have been exploited by middlemen, has attracted heaps of praise from corridors of power across the world.

Most notably, Mwotta was awarded the Queen of England’s Young Leaders’ Award in 2018 for helping to ensure fairer transactions between farmers and sellers. He received his award from the Buckingham Palace.

Mwotta’s goal is to ensure profitability in Agriculture as a way of attracting youths, majority of whom are unemployed, to engage in the activity. At the moment, he says most youths consider agriculture as the last resort after all shots at white collar jobs have failed.

“Going back to the village is associated with failure. Most youths say they’re going back to the village to practice farming after failing to find jobs in Kampala and other urban centres. I want that to change.” Mwotta says.

Before his work is even considered halved, Mwotta says that he wants a society that respects farmers and where the practice of farming is appreciated for being one of the top earning job titles.

We wish him the best in his work and appreciate his effort to transform society.