How Uganda’s agricultural sector is coping with climate change

I joined CNBC Africa host Makeda on her Power Lunch program to discuss the on-going drought and how it’s affecting the region. The delayed rains put quit the damper on the start of our production year. We normally start harvests at the end of March. But because sustained rains didn’t return until last week, we’ve been delayed by about a month. Those kinds of delays can have a huge impact on your bottom line as an agri-business. Hopefully this year we’ll be designing our business model with a hedge against such unexpected droughts. Our business model actually does well the more it rains and suffers during droughts. With almost 200 distributed acres in our supply chain, irrigation is a bit prohibitive. So we have to think smarter. We’ve started working on integrating a lot more technology in our model that can give us a heads up in times of unpredictable weather.