{"id":740,"date":"2012-11-10T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fortuneofafrica.com\/ug\/value-addition\/"},"modified":"2012-11-10T13:00:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T13:00:29","slug":"value-addition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/value-addition\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges in Value Addition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Challenges to the small scale farmers<\/strong><br \/>\nThe farmers face the following challenges in the process of value addition to the raw materials:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The farmers lack the necessary knowledge of how to add value to agricultural products. The knowledge can be achieved through training.<\/li>\n<li>They lack the capacity to meet greater demands and expectations of customers in terms of quality, quantity and consistency<\/li>\n<li>Most farmers operate on a subsistence level and\u00a0 are quite small and they even lack the land<\/li>\n<li>The farmers lack the financial and technological capacity to process their produce.<\/li>\n<li>There are few co-operatively owned agro-processing industries to organise the farmers.<\/li>\n<li>Uganda still imports more processed farm produce than it exports.<\/li>\n<li>Lack of market oriented farming<\/li>\n<li>They lack the skill to successful market the farm produce on their own as opposed of going through middlemen.<\/li>\n<li>Lack of forum which the farmers can join\u00a0 to share experience<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Challenges to the small scale farmers The farmers face the following challenges in the process of value addition to the raw materials: The farmers lack the necessary knowledge of how to add value to agricultural products. The knowledge can be achieved through training. They lack the capacity to meet greater demands and expectations of customers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-740","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Challenges to the small scale farmers The farmers face the following challenges in the process of value addition to the raw materials: The farmers lack the necessary knowledge of how to add value to agricultural products. The knowledge can be achieved through training. They lack the capacity to meet greater demands and expectations of customers&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}