UGANDA / WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS

Betty Ndugga is an entrepreneur from Luwero District, Uganda, providing local farmers with coffee bean seedlings and thus helping to revive a once thriving business sector in that country. FAO

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:13
• Production Date: 7 March 2017
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION - FAO
• Subject Topical: ENTREPRENEURSHIP; WOMEN'S RIGHTS
• Geographic Subject: UGANDA
• MAMS Id: 1842795
• Parent Id: 1842795
• Alternate Title: unifeed170307a

Description

STORY: UGANDA / WOMEN ETREPRENUERS
TRT: 2:13
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: LUGANDA /ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: OCTOBER 2016, LUWERO DISTRICT, UGANDA

Shotlist

1. Various shots, Ndugga inside her coffee bean nursery
2. SOUNDBITE (Luganda) Betty Ndugga, Entrepreneur:
“This is where my first nursery was established. It used to stop here. Then I expanded the nursery all the way up there to the end.”
3. Pan right, new part of the nursery
4. SOUNDBITE (Luganda) Betty Ndugga, Entrepreneur:
“After [my parents died] I had learned how to raise the coffee seedlings I started to operate this nursery as a business enterprise.”
5. Med shot, women workers in the nursery
6. Wide shot, Ndugga with workers
7. SOUNDBITE (Luganda) Betty Ndugga, Entrepreneur:
“This is the coffee which is not resistant to the wilt disease. And this one here is the new variety”.
8. Various shots, women working
9. SOUNDBITE (Luganda) Betty Ndugga, Entrepreneur:
“I wanted to be able to look after my family because I am a widow now that I lost my husband.”
10. Tilt up, seedlings at a market
11. Med shot, Ndugga by a truck
12. Wide shot, truck with seedlings
13. Wide shot, market
14. Close up, bagging seedlings
15. Tilt down, Namutaane bagging seedlings
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Zaam Namutaane, farmer:
“Today I’ve taken 250 seedlings that after like, some 2 years to come, I will be able to yield, then I sell and I add on my income, educate my children, look after my family, and all their basic needs.”
17. Med shot, man carrying seedlings
18. Pan left, man riding a motorbike with seedlings on it
19. Wide shot, Ndugga at the market

Storyline

Betty Ndugga is an entrepreneur from Luwero District, Uganda, providing local farmers with coffee bean seedlings. Betty used to be a clothing trader in the capital Kampala, but after her husband died, she returned to her village and joined a local farmer field school, supported by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, where she was trained in coffee production.

SOUNDBITE (Luganda) Betty Ndugga, Entrepreneur:
“This is where my first nursery was established. It used to stop here. Then I expanded the nursery all the way up there to the end.”

Betty inherited the nursery from her parents and saw a business potential in it.

SOUNDBITE (Luganda) Betty Ndugga, Entrepreneur:
“After [my parents died] I had learned how to raise the coffee seedlings I started to operate this nursery as a business enterprise.”

Coffee bean has traditionally been Uganda’s top export crop. However, since 1993, coffee wilt disease has destroyed over 12 million plants here, forcing many small-holder farmers to abandon their coffee plantations.

Now a wilt resistant variety has been developed, bringing new hope for small holder farmers.

SOUNDBITE (Luganda) Betty Ndugga, Entrepreneur:
“This is the coffee which is not resistant to the wilt disease. And this one here is the new variety”.

Betty’s seedlings are also being bought by the Uganda Coffee Development Authority who distributes them to farmers while also providing training in a drive to revive the sector.

SOUNDBITE (English) Zaam Namutaane, farmer:
“Today I’ve taken 250 seedlings that after like, some 2 years to come, I will be able to yield, then I sell and I add on my income, educate my children, look after my family, and all their basic needs.”