Politician Bazil Mwotta is motivated by the difficulties of society to innovate solutions.

Bazil Mwotta Biddemu is an Agriculture Enthusiast, Teacher, Social entrepreneur and Politician. At a very tender age, Mwotta harnessed an insatiable desire to impact positive change in his community. Having grown up in a predominantly farming community; Katiiti, Mpigi District, Mawokota, Mwotta interfaced directly how his mother as well as other farmers were being exploited by middle men who bought from them farm produce at cheap prices and sold to buyers in towns at exorbitant prices.

This gradually affected the livelihoods of these farmers whose sole source of income was and still is agriculture. In the bid to address this challenge, Mwotta started up AgroDuuka; a robust agricultural produce supply chain management software, supported by the Global System for Mobile communication that directly connects smallholder rural farmers to buyers in the market at a low cost via SMS and the internet, before and after harvest. AgroDuuka provides a platform for direct farmer-market interaction, a farmer can simply send a text message expressing intention to sell their farm produce prior to the harvesting period; a unique identification number is generated for the farmer by the AgroDuuka System. This message is displayed on the AgroDuuka interface where distinct buyers can view this information, place their offers, and make orders and the farmer can go ahead to directly connect with the buyer.
Because of this great work that Mwotta is doing, he has received enormous Awards and recognition. Recently, June 2018, Mwotta at a high class event at Buckingham Palace in London, United Kingdom received the Queen’s Young leaders’ Award from her Royal Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. In 2019,

Mwotta was listed as one of the Top 40 under 40 most influential Uganda by New Vision; Uganda’s leading print media Company. In March 2019, Mwotta represented Uganda in the Arab and African Youth forum held in Aswan, Egypt under the auspices of His Excellency Abdel Fattah Hussein Khalil, El Sisi; President of the Arab republic of Egypt, it is here that he met and had a conversation with President El Sisi who currently is the Chairperson of the African Union. In April 2018, Mwotta pitched his idea; AgroDuuka to Commonwealth Heads of Government at the Pitch@Palace event organized under the auspices of the Duke of York. In May 2018, Mwotta exhibited his idea; AgroDuuka at the African Innovation Summit in Kigali, Rwanda where he gave a Keynote address at the inception of the Summit before Heads of Government from Africa. In February 2018, Mwotta became a NextGen in Franchising Competition Finalist in Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America in a Competition organized by the International Franchise Association. In April 2018, he became a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program Fellow. In August 2018, he became a Young Achievers Award Finalist. In September 2017, Mwotta received the Internet Society’s 25 under 25 Award for using the internet to promote positive impact in his community through AgroDuuka.

In December 2017, Mwotta became an Internet Governance Fellow and consequently was invited to represent Uganda in the Internet Governance Forum in Geneva, Switzerland. In June 2017, Mwotta represented Uganda in the Caux Dialogue on Peace, Land, Security and Governance in Caux, Switzerland. In May 2017, he represented Uganda in the first ever African Youth Agriprenuers Forum in Ibadan, Nigeria.

In March 2017, Mwotta became a Finalist in the East African Post Harvest Competition held in Nairobi, Kenya having participated enormously well in the semi-finals held in Arusha, Tanzania in February 2017. In 2015, Mwotta became the Milky Way Youth Movement Global Ambassador. In 2016, he became an Ashoka American Express Emerging Innovator at a ceremony held in Nairobi, Kenya. In March 2016, Mwotta was declared winner of the Makerere University Guild Presidential elections. In 2015, he served as the Guild Representative Council of the School of education in Makerere University. The Guild Representative Council is the top most student leadership body at Makerere University. On the 15th of January, 2019, the Chancellor of Makerere University bestowed upon Mwotta a Bachelor’s of Arts with Education Degree having completed his studies cum laude at East Africa’s best academic institution. In his vacation, having completed his Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education, Mwotta embarked on volunteering on Radio Maria as an On Air Personality for a period of three years.