1. Hardworking
THIS means that you should be ready to commit all the energy, time, skills and responsibilities necessary for your farm to succeed. You should not be a phone farmer or one who visits the farm once in three months!

2. Determined
This means being committed to ensure that every task on the farm, once started is successfully completed. Many farmers start things and fail them midway.

3. Risk taking
A risk taker is somebody who assumes responsibility and makes decisions after careful consideration of what he or she is doing. In this way, your farm will grow.

4. Team player
Working as a team means that you are ready to listen to your farm workers and learn from them as they listen to you and learn from you. This will ensure that everyone on the farm is respected and motivated.

5. Creative
Being creative means you are ready to come up with new ideas for the farm and are willing to try them out. Many farms stall because owners do not create ways of adapting new ideas.

6. Fore sighted
You must be able to anticipate situations. This will help you make arrangements to react to these situations in future and ahead of time. Farmers are commonly caught offside when it comes to weather and market changes for example.

7. Learner
You must be willing to ask and learn. Seek professional advice and learn from the others. As long as you have these characteristics, there is no reason for you farm to fail.

Information sourced from professors, Eli Katunguka, C.M Rubaire Akiiki, and Dr. Jason Ndikuwera, all lecturers and agriculture researchers at Makerere
University.

Compiled by Joshua Kato