Matooke (bananas and/or plantains to the rest of the English speaking world) is a staple food for most people in Central, Southern and Western Uganda, which also means it makes business sense to grow and sell it.
However, despite the assured market for matooke, the matooke business is rife with many harships for both farmers and traders. These range from diseases decimating entire crops or dipping prices and profits brought on by oversupply at certain times of the year or during certain seasons.
Edrai Kagombe is a matooke farmer in Nyakayoojo in Mbarara district while Medi Kimera and Deus Mwijuka are traders that buy matooke from Mbarara to sell in markets in Kampala.
These three people have different but often intersecting stories of the kind of hardships they face in the process of growing, buying and selling the bananas from which they get their livelihood.
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