Meet our graduate!
Gerald Tumuhimbise- Uganda-Our graduate of batch Batch 2018-2019
After visiting Nazareth on an Agrostudies tour in December 2018, Gerald Tumuhimbise was inspired to name his farm after the city: Nazareth Farm in Uganda, which he started upon returning home.
Tumuhimbise’s project is a diversified farm with many revenue streams, and employs several full- and part-time employees. The farm includes 5 acres of established banana fields, which he is modernizing, based on practices he learned in Israel: “Agrostudies gave me a great kick-start to achieve my farming goals; I got a vast knowledge of Agriculture”
In other parts of the farm, Tumuhimbise maintains cross-breed dairy animals that provide manure for the bananas, as well as producing milk. Additionally, he grows four acres of beans intercropped with corn and twenty acres of rice. It is through the cultivation of diverse products that Tumuhimbise is able to profit from a wide variety of market schemes, as well as integrate his supply chain, such as the production of his own manure and feed. “I was exposed to a real world of Agribusiness. I thought I can start small and achieve big.”
Tumuhimbise is planning to increase his farm’s productivity, hire more employees, and ultimately, continue gaining more knowledge that he can use to improve Uganda’s agricultural sector. We wish him great success as he applies the knowledge he gained in Israel, and as he continues to make an impact in his country. “I can sustain my life and take care of the people around me, we hope to improve Uganda’s agriculture with this knowledge”
