Mr. Senoga Kenedy
Tel: +256-772-589865
Kenedy holds a BSc. Degree in Agriculture and a Master of Arts degree in Development studies. Shortly after his first degree, Kenedy joined Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) where he worked as a District Coffee Co-Ordinator for close to ten (10) years. He then joined NEUMANN KAFFEE GRUPPE (NKG) as a Technical Lead Agronomist/Consultant – a position he held for eleven (11) years. He later started offering consultancy services as an Agronomist with several NGOs including USAID/FtF/EEA among others - to review Robusta and Arabica coffee handbooks for Uganda Coffee Development Authority. These Handbooks are available on UCDA website and in use by most of the coffee growers. It is worth noting that Kenedy spearheaded the writing of the Rakai District Coffee Ordinance which was ratified by the Uganda Parliamentary Counsel Saral Mitanda and later operationalized with effect from 2001.
Kenedy is endowed with vast experience on coffee plantlet propagation, coffee nursery development and farm management for over thirty (30) years. He has worked with government and international agencies, business community and local farmers to implement strategies that improve the livelihoods of communities in agriculture as an industry. He has facilitated growth of local agricultural markets, worked with private agricultural firms to propagate coffee plantlets, promoted the productivity of clonal nurseries using split-cutting technology and trained a number of local farmers on coffee growing including Shalom Farm. He is currently an entrepreneur having a commercial mixed farm including with three enterprises namely, a Coffee nursery with a projected annual out-put of 200,000 clonal coffee plantlets, a coffee plantation of about 3000 coffee plants and a poultry farm with about 5000 birds.