Design solutions for small scale farmers – Stakeholders to gov’t

Stakeholders in the agriculture industry have tasked the government to find tailor-made solutions to the challenges facing small-scale farming in the country.

Some challenges small-scale farmers are faced with include lack of access to credit from banks; gender biases towards women farmers; high operational costs, and poor standards for processing and packaging, among other challenges.

We need long-term loans, not short-term ones

There are so many challenges, so need patient capital.”

“At times as a farmer, you are all alone facing all the challenges, so we need to use coil chain

Also addressing the media, an agribusiness entrepreneur and farmer, Doris Siibu, stated some challenges she faces as a farmer.

“The challenges I face as a farmer include difficulty accessing land because the place I come from, women do not own lands so there is that difficulty accessing land and there is also high cost of farm input, that has to do with fertilizers and even the seeds and also the issue of high cost of farm machinery and equipment and sometimes it is even difficult to get someone to plaw our lands.”