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Josephine Okot Quotes

born 1970

‎‎Josephine Okot is a Ugandan businesswoman, entrepreneur and corporate executive, who is the founder, managing director and chief executive officer of Victoria Seeds Limited, an agribusiness enterprise based in Uganda that processes, packages and markets agricultural seeds to farmers in the countries of the African Great Lakes.

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But loans often are for a maximum of 12 months. Twenty-year loans are needed at low rates.

We can't operate our business without water, electricity or an access road

When I told my friends I was starting a seed company they thought I was out of my mind.

They told me I don’t have a business history and they cannot run such a risk. *They were not going to give me any money.

Why not cut and paste for Uganda.

In 2006 I was an AWARD grantee at IITA and this really transformed me as an individual.

But what did I do? I went to a research project the East African Agricultural Productivity Programme and presented my plan.

This environment motivated me to start Victoria Seeds in 2002 because the policy was favorable.

There was an efficient extension service when I was growing up in the 1970s, but such extension is available to 14% or fewer farming households today.

I'd be sacked if I worked here.

Everyone said I was out of my mind.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Josephine Okot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.