Uganda will through the East African Grain Council (EAGC) host the forthcoming 10th Grain Trade Summit. President Yoweri Museveni will officiate the c
Uganda will through the East African Grain Council (EAGC) host the forthcoming 10th Grain Trade Summit. President Yoweri Museveni will officiate the ceremony to be held in Kampala from 5 to 7 October 2023.
The 10th Africa Grain Trade Summit will address the issues that limit trade in grains and staple foods in the eastern Africa region and Africa at large. The focus will be on what needs to be done for grain trade to thrive – between producers and traders through to processors and to the final consumers – in an efficient and effective manner that will reduce transaction costs and increase earnings to the value chain actors while making food affordable to consumers.
Grain Trade Summit
The focus will be on technology, information, and services. These are some of the major factors hindering the competitiveness and productivity of grain sector value chains in eastern and southern Africa. The 10 the, like previous editions of the summit, aims to gain high-level commitment to improving the policy environment for regional grain trade.
This 10th edition of the biennial, high-level, multi-stakeholder African Grain Trade Summit will be organized by the Eastern Africa Grain Council in partnership with the Government of Uganda and grain value chain stakeholders. Emmanuel Asiimwe, EAGC Uganda country director revealed that during the summit they will engage the government of Uganda to adopt the applicable standards in Kenya and Rwanda to get applied here to help Uganda also be able to export more to those markets.