Hass avocado - the wonder fruit
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Butikiro Eco Farms Uganda Ltd is a medium-sized company located in central Uganda focusing on upscaling the production and marketing of high value crops that command premium prices in the domestic and export markets and offer higher net returns per unit area of production. These include, but not limited to, fruits (avocado, apple, mango and pineapple), nuts (macadamia and cashew nut), beverages (coffee and cocoa) as well as vegetables and culinary spices (including chilli, rosemary, onion, garlic and ginger).
The company has been in existence since 2019 and currently has five nucleus farms located in Mukono district at Nsonga village (dedicated to Hass avocado) and in Kyankwanzi district at Kanabugoma village (dedicated to Hass avocado), Kitabona village (dedicated to macadamia and coffee), Gayaza village (dedicated to cashew nut) and at Kisekende village (with various crops, including macadamia, cashew nut, mango and rosemary) .
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We offer extension support services, training and capacity-building programs to our outgrower farmers, promoting the adoption of good agricultural practices and support them to improve the productivity, quality and sustainability of their crops. We encourage and guide farmers to adopt precision agriculture and climate-smart technologies, including drip irrigation systems, to boost production and productivity
We conduct trainings and on-farm demonstrations to educate farmers on good agricultural practices, including integrated pest management, regenerative farming practices such as intercropping, crop rotation, cover cropping, mulching, composting, minimum tillage which help to increase soil organic matter; soil erosion control, soil health maintenance and other practices that help to increase productivity while ensuring sustainability of the farms
We facilitate access to relevant technologies and innovations, including climate-smart and precision agriculture technologies, to help to improve production and productivity, to increase water-use efficiency and also assist farmers to effectively control of weeds, pests and diseases
We link our outgrower farmers to premium domestic and export markets in order to improve their incomes and livelihoods. We also support them to meet the quality standards and requirements for domestic and export markets and acquire GlobalGAP and other certifications. We also facilitate them to access aggregation centres and pack houses with cold-chain infrastructure to minimize post-harvest losses and ensure consistency in the quality of their produce
We are committed to continuously manage and reduce the impact of our activities on our environment, being fully aware of the symbiotic relationship that we have with our environment and taking responsibility for our actions.
Our sustainable agriculture campaigns are aimed at proactively engaging farmers, including through face-to-face meetings, to sensitize and support them to adopt sustainable and climate-smart agricultural practices at all levels.
FOLLOW OUR CAMPAIGNSI take this opportunity to express my heartfelt gratitude to the organizers of the Avocado Field Day and Training held at Butikiro Farm yesterday. I salute Butikiro Eco Farms, Mukono AvoCoop and HortiFresh for the initiative and Erie Tamale in particular for the effort you put into organizing this training. Erie, I loved your passion for AvoCoop and the dedication to Hass avocado growing. Yesterday I had the opportunity to see and experience it first hand. You are an inspiration to many of us in this industry. For some of us, it was the first time we attended such training. We learned a lot.
Those of us who attended the exposure visit to Butikiro Eco Farm in Mukono District on 16 March 2025 were amazed by the wealth of expertise the team was able to share with us in such a short space of time. Thank you Erie. Pass our sincere appreciation to the entire team.
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