One day in 1992, a professional teacher Evas Kamasaka returned home to try farming. She left her teaching job to concentrate on farming after realizing that it was the only way she would attain riches. Kamasaka says that she started growing, trees, matooke, ground nuts, greens, cassava, beans, sweet potatoes and millet for home consumption. But her biggest and main enterprise was tree planting which she proudly says has made her go to the bank smiling. Kamasaka who has planted 40 acres of eucalyptus trees, says that she used to sell each tree at shs 50,000 but later realized that she was being cheated and making loses and decided to be cutting her own timbers. She says that trees are one of the most profitable enterprises Ugandans should engage in, urging that it’s not labour intensive and besides money earning they also contribute to rain making. She explains that when she cuts her timber, she gets 120 timber from one tree and sells each at sh 3600. Kamasaka earned
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