Welcome To Transformation For Rural Development (TRAFORD)
Transformation for Rural Development (TRAFORD) is a private limited organisation that was incorporated by the government of Uganda in April,2016.
TRAFORD advocates, advises and promotes agriculture innovations with special emphasis on Climate Smart Agriculture for cereals, pulses and oil crops. Through this, Transformation for rural development limited is dedicated to poverty eradication through innovations that sustain household incomes and food security; improving the health and welfare of communities through capacity building trainings such as climate smart agriculture extension, farm entrepreneurship,post harvest handling,produce marketing,life skills ,capacity building in form of building farmer networks and associations that are easy to work with.
WHAT WE DO
Climate Smart Agriculture Advisory
| Climate Smart agriculture (CSA)
is an approach of agriculture extension implemented by Transformation for rural development Ltd (TRAFORD) to equip farmers with the necessary skills and knowledge
Agribusiness & Life Skills Capacity Building
| Training Farmers
Farmers are trained in farm record keeping that facilitate them in tracking their farm expenses, sales and making a final decision on whether their farming enterprises are profitable or not.
Marketing & Post Harvest Handling Services
| Post harvest handling
of produce is a contributing factor in high losses encored to farmers. This includes produce drying, cleaning, sorting, packaging, transportation, processing, storage and marketing.
Safety, Health & Environment Services
| Health Science & Enviroment
management involves the functions of planning, identifying problem areas, coordinating and controlling activities in the farm, all aimed at the prevention of accidents, ill health and harm to the environment.
Agriculture Research
| Agriculture Research
TRAFORD works with other researchers and development partners to innovate and initiate new farming ideas, farming approaches and strategies that increase land productivity per unit area and sustainability of food production.