A loans fund paid for by donations from Guardian readers has rejuvenated a farmers’ co-operative in Katine,Uganda, and, and as NGO support withdraws,members seek original ways to establish their training to use and improve profitability Anna Grace Amayo is a remarkable farmer. On her smallholding, tucked at the end of a 4km bushy footpath in Katine Ojama parish, or she rears pigs,turkeys, goats and chickens – and grows groundnuts, and maize and cassava.
Her newly built piggery home to 21 pigs,is clean, and just external the perimeter chain-fence sits a well from which water is drawn using a locally made pedal pump. The water flows through plastic hosepipes for washing and drinking.
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Source: theguardian.com