By Herbert Musoke
Adding value to raw farm products leads to increased profitability for farmers and agribusinesses, enabling them to earn better returns on their investments as the value-added products command higher prices on the market, but also prolong the shelf-life of the produce, especially the perishables.
This has been a call to the farmers and all players of the agriculture sector to add value to the harvest. For this, several enterprises at the expo, exhibited value-added products in both crops and livestock products that can make profitable businesses.
Products from goat milk, cow ghee
Dairy goat rearing was one of the new training sessions at the 2024 Harvest Money expo. The training gave trainees the A-Z of rearing dairy goats, but more exciting was the products that can be produced from goat milk.
Julie Kanyesigye, the director of Kanyes dairy farm, who was the trainer for the dairy goats’ management, explains that dairy goats are highly profitable, but a farmer would make more money if they added value to the milk because any minor contamination spoils it.
She makes cosmetics, such as creams and lotions from goats’ milk which she says is natural and healthy for the skin, with anti-aging agents.
Sheillah Kabanyana from Itoto cosmetics, exhibited jellies, lotions and other cosmetic products made from cow ghee, which she says are natural and provide market to the milk.
Kabanyana adds that the ghee is selected from suppliers dealing in quality, a factor to be considered if one is to produce quality cosmetic products.
