Agriculture Cluster Development Project

Rural economies in most African countries are primarily agrarian with minimal supply chains and inadequate infrastructure to enable access to markets. Most markets for food products are more than two to five hours away from farm households and this is a serious constrain to transportation of produce and movement in general. In Uganda, the poor state of community access roads is often escalated during the heavy rain seasons, when rural road bridges are washed away and roads become impassable thus disconnecting farmers from potential market areas. The spoilt road sections are often referred to as chokes that impede the Effects of heavy rains on Nabitende -Bwengo road in Iganga Cluster regular movement of motor vehicles, motor cycles or even people. These road chokes are a major challenge to the inflow and outflow of commodities to and from rural farming communities. Through the ACDP sub-component 2.3, technical and financial support has been ear marked for small works t...

U ganda reported its first case of COVID-19 on March 22 nd , 2020 and immediately after, H.E the President of Uganda ordered restrictions on movement of people, cars, motor cycles and closure of shops and all non-food stores for 14 days to contain the spread of COVID 19. The immediate impact of the shut- down was the survival of most citizens whose livelihoods depend on daily income, small businesses and subsistence farming. In addition, production, supply and demand to the markets slowed down thus threatening food security during both the lockdown period and post lockdown. The directive also brought to a halt the distribution of inputs in the districts, yet under the e-subsidy program, farmers had already paid their contributions towards the costs of Inputs. The Ministry of agriculture through ACDP had also topped up subsidies to the accredited agro-input dealers to provide inputs to farmers. At the time of the presidential directive, most of the farmers were yet to rec...