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|  | | Grain Stores (Uganda) | | | | | | Self Help Uganda has taken it’s first steps towards the organisation of small-holding farmers in it’s Kamuli programme into producer co-ops, with the recent completion of two grain storage depots in the area.
The project has joined with local government and it’s beneficiary partners in the Buyende and Namwandwa sub-counties to construct stores which the project believes will become a place for local growers to meet, and to market their produce.
‘Up until now these farmers had nowhere to come where they could bring their surplus grains. Once these stores are operational they will be able to pool resources, and it will be far easier for them to arrange transportation, and to get their produce to market’, explains project manager Paul Ariko.
The new grain stores are just the first physical manifestations of a plan to build the capacity of local farmers, but they also provide an important focal point for growers – and will become a centre where producers can meet for training and other purposes, Paul explains. |
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| The new stores are both sided adjacent to local government facilities in the two sub-counties, and have been built with manual labour provided by the two beneficiary communities.
‘Villagers in the area supplied the bricks, sand and aggregates for the construction, while Self Help supported with the provision of building timber, iron sheeting, and some of the skilled labour that was required’.
In the coming months Self Help in Uganda is to appoint it’s first co-operatives development officer, who will be charged with establishing and organising local farmers groups, and building their capacity so that they can market, and even buy their farm inputs collectively in the future.
‘Individual small-holding farmers have little chance at present to reach the bigger markets with any surplus produce because of the volumes being produced, but it makes far more economic sense for them, and for the grain buyers if these people can band together, and store their surpluses in the one place for collection and sale’, Paul Ariko added.
Self Help in Kamuli believes that it’s two grain storage banks will become centres for providing information and farmer training activities in the future, and can also be a site from which seed, fertiliser and other inputs can be distributed and sold. | | Related Topics | | | | | |
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