Agriculture Cluster Development Project

  The Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries will   support the implementation of smallholder coffee irrigation models in nine selected districts under the Agriculture Cluster Development Project (ACDP).   These models will be implemented in partnership with the district local governments, through the matching grant model with individual beneficiary farmers contributing 25% and Government contributing 75% (not exceeding UGX40m) of the total investments. This model is similar to the Matching Grants model where farmer organizations have been supported to put up post- harvest storage facilities and acquire processing machinery. In an awareness creation workshop held for district local government leaders, Engineer Dennis Tumusiime,   ACDP Water Engineer, said that this support is expected to establish 50 smallholder irrigation systems for three to five acre garden of a   beneficiary farmer. Farmers whose gardens are less than 3 acres wil

  The Agriculture Cluster Development Project (ACDP) was awarded the best Visionary Agriculture Government project of the year 2020 at the annual Visionaries of Uganda Award ceremonies. This was done in recognition of their outstanding contribution towards helping Uganda achieve Middle income goal and Vision 2040. The Awards were presided over by H.E Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi the Vice President of Uganda under the theme “Celebrating Dynamic Leadership and strengthening of Fundamentals of the Economy to realize Uganda’s Vision 2040” ACDP declared effective on January 23, 2017, is a partnership project of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries and the World Bank, financed by the International Development Assistance (IDA) of the World Bank. Its main objective is to raise on-farm productivity, production, and marketable volumes of selected agricultural commodities like maize, beans, rice, cassava and coffee, spanning over 57 districts. The project target