Agricultural Projects

In Uganda, over 80% of the population is employed in Agriculture. The majority of the people in rural areas own land. However, it is heartbreaking to find some families, especially the widows and child-headed families who can not effeciently farm their land because they lack the seeds to plant. As a result, such families suffer from shortage of food and agricultural produces for sale.  These families encounter difficulties finding enough food especially during the dry seasons. Famine and poverty are very devastating and continue to take lives in thousands in Africa.

Our Solution:

Uganda Rural Fund purchases seeds from local farmers who have produces in abundance. In doing so, we support the local farmers to earn income f rom their produce at a fair market price. URF in turn donates the seeds to poor families, widows and orphans' homes so they can grow enough produce for food and sale off the surplus to earn some income.

At the end of the season considering how the harvest turns out, the families who received see donations are expected to give back a portion of their harvest to URF. We then re-destribute these seeds to other needy families. Through encouraging the spirit of giving back, the program becomes self-sustaining and create a long sustained impact in the lives of many families in rural areas.

What Seeds commonly distributed?

Most people in the region where we serve, grow:

• Corn/Maize
• Beans
• Soya beans 
• Peas
• Groundnuts (planters)

FUTURE PLANS

FARM TRACTOR  - We would like to acquire a farm tractor to help local farmers in cultivating their land more efficiently. Farmers use hand hoe s to plough acres and acres of land. This is time and energy consuming and limits the ammount of produce the family can harvest. With use of a tractor families will be able to cultivate more land, produce more, and subsquently double their income. With enough food for home consumption and the surplus for market, it means that the families' standard of living with improve drastically.

Please help us realise this dream and change the living conditions of poor farmers in rural Uganda.