Agriculture Cluster Development Project

Introduction  Mer ber Cooperative society started as a VSLA in 2008 with 38 members. According to Mr Ogey Paul the Manager, in 2011 the VSAL was registered as a cooperative owned by members. In 2014 it was able to attract financing from USAIF to put up the rice machine which has been serving members of the community. The Cooperative now has over 500 members with 120 members registered in the e-Voucher. More Youth have also been attracted to the cooperative. Members are engaged in cassava production with over 200 acres of crop. Paul says as a cooperative they need much more farm land. This is to match the capacity of the cassava processing machine which they acquired from the ACDP matching grant.  Mer-ber youth members prepare cassava for drying ACDP Matching grant  In 2020, the Cooperative acquired a matching grant of Shs 406,871,000 to construct a store, a solar drier and buy a cassava processing machine. This was to help save the farmer’s time since the machine w...

  Introduction Formed in 2014, Binagoro women’s group   is located in   Medennga village, Midigo sub county.   This 30 member group was among the first three groups in Yumbe district to benefit from the ACDP first cohort matching grant. Overall the group benefited from a matching grant of   shs 189,000,000.   Members   contributed   shs.   62,370,000   while government through ACDP contributed   shs 126,630,000. Benefits   They started construction of their storage facility in March 2020. One year later they had completed construction, and in April 2021, they were able to purchase a cassava milling machine at 32 million shillings.  Binagoro Women's group grinding mill Before construction of the store, they were keeping their cassava in their houses and would have to walk up to Madigo subcounty.   Grace Chandiru, a group member said the grant had helped in many ways. For example, they are able to mill cassava at ...