In 2019, St. Joseph Farm emerged as the Overall Winner in the Best Ugandan Farmer competition — a national contest that brought together over 8,000 farmers from across the country.

This award was not about showcasing the biggest machines or the largest capital investment — it was about demonstrating practical, innovative, and impactful farming methods that other farmers in our communities can learn from and replicate.

Anthony with the Nertherlands Ambassador to Uganda His Excellency Henk Jan Bakker and my brother Gerald Raymond Bukenya Comrade- in- Arms and Struggle

What This Award Means To Us

  • This accolade is a reflection of our core values:
  • Using local resources wisely
  • Sharing knowledge with fellow farmers
  • Practicing sustainable and responsible agriculture
  • Empowering our community towards food security

The criteria for the year was:

    • Well planned farm: To be keen that once well planned, land is optimumly utilised instead of haphazard work. “ Tear the paper plan, don’t tear the building”
    • Security: both Biosecurity and physical security: Protect where yo put your money. Fence off your land and bio-protect all entries to: Main gate, poultry unit and piggery.
    • Human Resource Welfare: renumeration, protective gears, residence, amenities, etc…. Employees may fail yo or uplift you. Their welfare should be of vital importance to the farmer.
    • Use Of Modern Agricultural Methods: Science is improving agricultural practices every day. How far is one utilising the innovations in modern agriculture like irrigation, fertilisers, etc…
  • Anthony in Tears of Joy and Prayer

    • Quality Of Infrastucture: animals will be health in sound structures. They don’t ned to be exotic. Usage of local materials but well done and cost effective is important.
  • Quality of animals, birds and plants: it is not a question of numbers (quantity). This is where there is real skills and hands on.
  • Impact To Local Community: is the neighbourhood changing by virtue of a project that does not belong to them. Yes: agriculture is business not hobby. (Farming for Business), attitude change especially among the youth and women, employment, utilities brought in the area by virtue of the farm, forward and backward linkages.
  • Environmental Protection: No cutting of trees unless inevitable and in that case, three others have to be planted. No polythene and plastic bags/bottles at the farm, use of iogradable energy and eusable energy (biogass, sola energy, Briquettes, etc….)
  • Best among the best with the sponsors and national panel of judges

    Value Addition( Juice, Yogurt, etc…..)

  • Financial Records And Management (What cannot be counted cannot be measured)
  • Family Involvement ( The life of the farm may begin wit you but should not end with you. Children and spouse participate in the entire life of the farm)
  • Farm mechanisation: especially the usage of appropriate technology easily usable by others for learning purposes.
  • Contribution to Academia: Through providing internship placements and acceptance of certain experiments to be conducted at the Farm.