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A potential Woman Model Farmer.

Esther showing a nursery bed of cabbage and Sukuma.

Mother of 8, Chemutai Esther shares on the limitations faced by women farmers in her community.

Chemutai Esther, a mother of 8 (3 boys and 5 girls), is a resident of Tabagon Village in Kitawoi Sub-County, Kween District. Esther prides herself in being a small-scale rural woman farmer with 15 years of experience. She explains that with farming, she has been able to achieve goals like pay school fees for her children and purchase a plot of land, which in her culture is a rare occurrence as women are customarily not permitted to own property.

Esther explains that the major challenges she has encountered as a woman farmer are: Limited finances to expand her crop farming, low market prices and community’s belittlement of women farmers.  

She elaborates that given her 15 years’ experience as a woman farmer, she has the ability and aspires to become a model female farmer in Kween District. However, her dream may never be achieved if she remains operating on a small scale.

It is her wish that the government of Uganda would provide grants to “serious” small scale rural women farmers like her so that they improve on their livelihoods as well as bring development to their communities through employment of staff, export of produce and value addition to produce.