Doho Irrigation Farmers’ Cooperative Society upgrades their rice storage facility
Introduction Doho Irrigation Farmers’ Cooperative Society (DIFACOS) are ACDP cohort three matching grantees. This seven year old Cooperative Society is under the mandate of Ministry of Water and Environment in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture and replaced the management committee in 2014. Butaleja district where this scheme is found a potential rice growing area and has water throughout the year supplied by the three rivers of Manafa, Mpologoma and Namatala. DIFACOS members are all rice farmers and are enrolled in the e-Voucher system. In 1997, the infrastructure at Doho irrigation rice scheme was washed away and this led to government intervention of improving the irrigation scheme to control the flood waters. As a result 98% of the farm plots receive water for irrigation. Matching grant In 2021, DIFACOS became beneficiaries of a total grant of UGX 373,134,328 with government contribution of 250 million and the cooperative co-financing of UG