The Institute of Mountain Agriculture

We are Franchising Radical Agricultural practices.

A lot of our practices are Based on a practice called Problem-based learning; which attempts to provide
a relevant education to an individual within his context by solving his immediate problems. I first learnt
of this practice In our first year at Campus in 2004, my friends who studied medicine had this practice
started at their Medical school, so I was very keen on its practice.

This is the Journal of the Institute of Mountain Agriculture. We are broadcasting from Western Uganda,
Rukungiri District. Whenever I am in Rukungiri, I spend my time at Kwifabi Eco-farm, Shout out to my
buddy Cuthbert Tukundane, vet doctor, farmer and entrepreneur, who is our Donald Trump in as far as
trying to make ‘The farm great again’. Check out his Kabingo Agri-business Initiative on facebook.com

Now We’ve been out here for 6 months setting up shop. Through these regular Podcasts, online blog
and forum and Quarterly publications we are creating a vehicle for continuing learning by delivering
Radical agriculture information into the public domain.

We are inspired by a lot of people. For starters, a britishman called Sir Walter Weatherhead, who
started and built one of the finest schools In Uganda, King’s College, Budo. Walter Weatherhead was an
Aglican priest and a carpenter; who steered into Uganda in 1906. Walter weatherhead started off with a
Wood workshop.

Also shout out to my late father Swaibu Mulinya, who was born here in Rukungiri organized his family
into our grandfather’s Estates company which now runs a 100 acre 10 Year old Pine forest, within which
we now have access to deploy all our radical Agriculture practices.

Sometimes in the mornings when I am climbing the hills I break out and sing the Budo anthem, “Oh
maker of this lovely hill, the trees and grasses freshly green. The morning mist, the waster still, we thank
you for this royal hill.”

The Journal of the Institute of Mountain Agriculture is sent out to a Membership of true fans who
subscribe for a monthly fee of $2. We are creating an online subscription community of at least 1,000
true fans across the world.

On the ground we are enrolling young students, for now, who are Certificate holders in Carpentry and
Agriculture.

At our current point of conception, The following are faculties which are of prime importance to the
development of Uganda and constitute our Radical agricultural practices.

1. Apiculture – breeding bees

2. Horticulture – breeding trees
3. Aquaculture – breeding fishes
4. Vermiculture – breeding worms
So what are these Radical agricultural practices ?

1. Apiculture.

Like Sir Walter, We’ve started off with a carpentry workshop and an Apiary.

We’ve identified and deposited on a Workshop and we are enrolling Carpenters whom we are
teaching to learn to build, from online designs, modern high yielding Bee hives; the Langstroth
hives mainly but also the Kenya Tob bar hive. We are located in the heart of the wood street, a
couple of metres away from the Timber association which received excellent machines from the
President recently which we use for our complex machining before we take for assembly in our
workshop.

We want to create a production capacity of hives of hundreds of thousands per year.

Since we are in charge of thinning that 10 year forest, we have a lot of wood available to us that
we can recycle immediately into bee hives.

Our radical implementation of Apiculture requires us to manufacture bee hives, build apiaries,
breed bees, feed bees, produce, market and sell the various products that are related the
industy: honey,wax, propolis,venom, royal jelly, pollen,apitherapy etc.

Radical agriculture means we industrialise agriculture. We’ve chosen the best faculties which
give us a bigger bang for our buck. They have multiple products and sources of income and fill
many gaps in the eco-system with a various opportunities for vertical and horizontal integration
across the value chain.

Ultimately we want to enroll students whom we can set up to capture opportunities across the
value chain. We will form partnerships to set up various business units with our students so that
we not only retain talent but we actually provide a relevant education; one in which practice is
in touch with learning.

To fully capture this opportunity in our minds. Uganda is reported to have a honey production
potential of 500,000 tones per year. With each tone valued at $3,000 this is a $1.5 billion
industry we need to get a grip of by the neck. And even if this amount was over valued by 10
times, a $150million opportunity is still worth the chase.

To capture 500,000 tons of honey every year, we need at least 17 million high yielding
langstroth hives or perhaps 50 million hives of the cheaper KTB. So there is a massive multi-
million dollar opportunity to make bee hives.
 Currently we have access to 100 acres to set up apiaries with-in. we are soon signing more land
access deals which will enable us to set up hundreds of Apiaries thus providing our students
with large scale spaces to practice what they study.
By tempting at franchising these practices, we can hope that we teach, train and implement

Why do we choose to organize as an institute

There is a profound lack of skilled and educated labour in our country. The education system has
touched so few people and to attempt at starting an industry we find that must commit to investing in
the training of the human resources first and foremost. And secondly, we must retain talent.

Our source of information is largely the internet. To access this information requires a dedicated space,
to study and practice these new ideas which are largely from America and Australia. Online libraries like
www.soilandhealth.org , among others, are our key repositories.

Much as we want to have a labour force, we are more interested in having students ready to commit to
many hours of study and practice; and therefore creating an environment which fosters this type of
learning and human resource development for the nation.

We are still highly business oriented and we want to form various cash generating units across our
various value chains we identify as we create a well trained and educated labour force.

We thus expose opportunities for global investors to replicate our practices and capture opportunities
across the value chain. The Institute of Mountain Agriculture wants to provide you with a well trained
and exposed labour force.

Feel free to sponsor a student. We provide accommodation, a digital library, meals, access to a
workshop and a forest with lots and lots of work to do. We will be profiling our students as we provide
them with life-long career opportunities.

Go to our patreon page; www.patreon.com/ioma; tune in to our channel, and access our various
publications.

Radical agriculture is expanding agriculture’s political and economic philosophy