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Josephine Okot
31 quotes
“I'd be sacked if I worked here.”
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“I'm much too loud, you have a horrible office, I'm not coming back.”
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“The hand held hoe should no longer be a tool of production.”
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“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.”
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“We need people to advise farmers on how to apply fertiliser.”
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“Control pests and prevent post-harvest losses such as those caused by inadequate storage.”
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“Donors should focus on those higher up the value chain.”
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“It is enterprises that are the critical drivers, they drive demand from farmers.”
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“If donors want to achieve their objectives, if they want to improve livelihoods, they should focus on businesses that add value to output.”
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“Why not cut and paste for Uganda.”
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“To bring a seed from breeder stage to the market can take three years.”
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“But loans often are for a maximum of 12 months. Twenty-year loans are needed at low rates.”
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“We can't operate our business without water, electricity or an access road,”
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“This environment motivated me to start Victoria Seeds in 2002 because the policy was favorable.”
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“You need confidence and to believe in yourself.”
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“When I told my friends I was starting a seed company they thought I was out of my mind.”
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“That is a business for men, they told me.”
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“I pushed on and even picked up a name that would inspire me every day.”
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“But what did I do? I went to a research project the East African Agricultural Productivity Programme and presented my plan.”
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“They wrote me a letter to take to the bank to guarantee my loan if I fail to repay it.”
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“The bank then accepted to give me startup capital.”
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“In 2006 I was an AWARD grantee at IITA and this really transformed me as an individual.”
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“The following year I got the YARA award.”
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“The training was for scientists but they brought me in as a woman in business.”
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“Everyone said I was out of my mind.”
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“They said business is a male dominated area and that the private seed industry hardly existed in Uganda.”
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“The bank actually shut the door in my face.”
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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.”
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“I named it after the largest body of water on the continent.”
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“I felt it showed that I will always be here.”
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“In the early years it gave me the confidence every day to wake up and say, I am not going anywhere.”
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