Integrating youth in agriculture- presentation made at UFAAS TOT workshop

1. Integrating Youths in Agriculture (YinAG)
Leveraging digital solutions that accelerate results

2. About Us
Capacity Development
Financial Inclusion Mobile Data collection
Mobile Ag Extension
• Monitoring, Evaluation
& Learning
• Project Planning and
Management
www.gutsinda.org
consultus@gutsinda.org

3. Young people recognize
agriculture as a profession of
intense labour, not profitable
and unable to support their
livelihood compared to white
collar jobs offer.
Working in the school garden
was a punishment/those
without fees
Limited access to Credit to Kick-
start Agricultural Projects
Farming is considered old-fashioned
and unprofitable
Agriculture is linked to village
living in a shack
Youth have no land to engage in
Agriculture

4. Critical factors for Youths to Join Agriculture
The Opportunity
The Agriculture Extension system is broken

5. Village Enterprise Agent Model
Lead farmer
Target farmers (3,600)
Total farmers (12,000)
VEA = 1:12
LF : Target farmer = 1:30 LF : Other farmer = 1:70

6. •GEO referenced farmer
profiles including land size,
location etc
• Understanding customer
needs and target demand
• Farm management plans
with ability to track
commitments + challenges
Data collection to
enable Farmer
profiling &
production
forecasting

7. Technical Assistance
• Promoting adoption of
CSA, Gender & GAP
• Access to technical
reference material (e.g.
input use & fertilizer
app)
•Weather Information
• Input & output Linkage

8. Facilitating and Verification of Saving & Credit

9. Farmers
VEA
Agro-Inputs Farmer Support Markets/Produce
•Direct sales
•Credit
Aggregation of
quality Agro inputs
•Advisory services
•Training
VEA services
Revenue
Youths in the Value
Chain

10. Create Farmer profiles
through Monitoring and
Evaluation
Provide Agricultural Support
and best practices using
Farm Management Plans
(FMP)
Facilitate Transactions
between producers,
cooperatives & Key value
chain Institutions/partners
Leveraging local change agents, productive value chains and vital agriculture
information, Gutsinda is able to catalyse behaviour change that leads to
sustainable improvements in economic lives of small holder producers
Human Networks
+ +
ICT
Value Chain
Partners
Summary of Proposed Approaches

11. A Case of Zawedde – Nakaseke

12. - Integrate with existing databases if any
- Conduct user requirement gathering & prioritize features
- Design, build and prototype custom services
- Deploy custom services
Customize tools