Majority of Uganda’s more than 40 million people live in rural areas and practice farming. Supporting smallholder farmers who make up the bulk of the
farming population is critical to reducing poverty, boosting prosperity, and creating jobs, especially for women and youth. Unfortunately, Uganda’s agriculture sector is plagued by a host of challenges. These include – but not limited to – too few extension officers to serve a huge farming population with a ratio of 1:5,000 extension officers to farmers which leads to poor access to access services, low technological adoption, lack of access to quality inputs, lack of access to affordable credit changing weather patterns and many others. The advent of ICTs, especially mobile technologies, and their rapid diffusion in Uganda if well leveraged, can bring about major quantum jumps in efficiency and effectiveness in the delivery of agriculture services.