Agriculture Cluster Development Project

  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 ta...

  The 4 th Project Technical committee was held in September 2020 and chaired by the Under-Secretary MAAIF,   Mr Gyagenda Ssegawa.   These committee meetings are held twice a year and are aimed at keeping the Technical team abreast of the project implementation and progress.   It is also at these meetings that the technical team proposes ideas for improvement. The meeting was attended by the Technical Committee, composed of   MAAIF Commissioners,   Top policymakers from   NIITA-U, Ministry of Local government and the Project Implementation Team.   The team noted that the Project is commendable and strategic thereby, making it very important to the Ministry. Objectives of the meeting Presentation and adoption of ACDP performance 2019/20 Presentation of highlights of approved Financial year 2020/21 work plan Presentation and adoption of Mid-term review and the Issues paper Presentation of the upcoming Mid-term review and World Bank support miss...

  One of the Grievances that the project anticipated to arise was the supply of poor quality of inputs, delays in delivery of inputs, high cost of inputs, wrong input varieties among other complaints. Indeed, in April, verbal reports reaching the coordination office, indicated that a cross section of beneficiary farmers in Muko Sub county, Rubanda district had received poor germinating bean seeds redeemed under the e-voucher program.   To validate the complaints a response team quickly visited the aggrieved farmers to make an assessment. The team was comprised of MAAIF Cluster 11 Coordinator, the supplier (Green Firm Africa), Acting District Production Officer, Acting DAO and the sub county extension worker for the affected sub county. The team sampled and interacted with nine affected farmers and sampled four gardens. This is what they found out; ·        A total of 63 farmers all hailing from one sub county; Muko in Rubanda district had rec...