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Nakaseke Stuck With UGX 800M Under Micro-Small Scale Irrigation Program

URN.According to the guidelines, the Government contributes between 25% and 75% of the total cost of the irrigation equipment whereas the farmers contribute 25%-75% depending on the type of scheme they need to install.

Dorothy Nalumansi by Dorothy Nalumansi
February 23, 2022
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Nakaseke District is stuck with more than Shillings 800 million meant to support farmers to install micro-scale irrigation schemes in their gardens.

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The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal husbandry and Fisheries with support from the World Bank through the Uganda Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfer Program (UgIFT)  has so for disbursed Shillings 1.036 billion to Nakaseke district in the financial year 2021/22 under the Microscale Irrigation Programme.

According to the guidelines, the Government contributes between 25% and 75% of the total cost of the irrigation equipment whereas the farmers contribute 25%-75% depending on the type of scheme they need to install. The Program caps the support to 2.5 acres thus it is expected to benefit mainly smallholder farmers interested to transition from mainly subsistence to more commercial agriculture. 

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Titus Lwera, the Nakaseke District Agricultural Officer, says that 661 farmers expressed interest in acquiring the micro-scale irrigation plants and 231 were approved to benefit from the program. However, Lwera reveals that a few months to the end of the financial year, only nine farmers have fulfilled the requirements, which includes the payment of the 25%-75% contribution to the project. 

He says that over Shillings 800 million is still lying on the district accounts because the remaining farmers are yet to contribute their top-up to acquire the irrigation equipment. Fred Rwabirinda, the Nakaseke District Secretary for Production, says that they played their part to select and sensitize farmers but they are surprised that many have failed to deposit their contributions to access the top-up.

Rwabirinda says that it will be an embarrassment if the money returns to the consolidated fund because of the failure by the farmers to contribute and get the irrigation equipment yet they often suffer prolonged drought.

Fred Bamwine, the Nakaseke Resident District Commissioner and Nakaseke Chief Administrative Officer, Sarah Nakalungi have warned the farmers that the money will be swept back to the consolidated fund in the next four months if they fail to fulfil the requirements to access it.

Bamwine says the micro-irrigation scheme will help farmers, especially those living in areas that experience drought perennially.

Christopher Kazoora, a farmer in Butebere village in Kinyogogga, says that he is happy to acquire the irrigation equipment and hopes that others will believe after seeing the government installing it on his farm. Kazoora says that he only paid Shillings 6 million to acquire the equipment and will use it to irrigate his 3-acre garden.

Other farmers say although they need the irrigation equipment, the co-funding requirement is prohibitive and they want the government to donate it freely.

The Ministry of Agriculture selected four companies, which include Baata Engineering Company Limited, Akvo International, Balton Uganda, Grow More Seeds and Chemical Limited to supply as well as install the micro small scale irrigation plants in farmers’ gardens after meeting the requirements.

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