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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.

— Josephine Okot

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The training was for scientists but they brought me in as a woman in business.

We need people to advise farmers on how to apply fertiliser.

That is a business for men, they told me.

They said business is a male dominated area and that the private seed industry hardly existed in Uganda.

Control pests and prevent post-harvest losses such as those caused by inadequate storage.

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