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Help us fight extreme poverty here in Busoga, Uganda’s poorest region, with a Grain Facility.

 

This page was created on Oct 1, 2025 by UCF founder Anthony | @KaluluAnthony

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We have been trying to raise support for this grain facility (and the integrated plant) for the past ten years. You can see our 2017 presentation to the UNDP Uganda senior team. Despite our best efforts with many different organizations, we have not yet succeeded.
Help us install a grain facility that will create new market linkages for rural poor smallholder farmers in our region. This facility is only part of what will ultimately be an integrated agro-processing plant. Our integrated plant, once installed, will place the rural poor in our region on a self-sustainable path from poverty by creating markets for various types of crops. This page however is only raising support for the grain facility alone.

4) Food security. Sugarcane has caused severe hunger in our region, because it can’t be eaten as food. By contrast, all the crops that our grain facility (and subsequent integrated plant) will be getting local farmers to grow (sorghum, maize, rice, millet, beans, cassava etc) are food crops. This will strongly contribute towards food security in our region.

4) Food security. While sugarcane has caused severe hunger in our region, all the crops that our grain facility (and subsequent integrated plant) will be getting local farmers to grow on a large scale (sorghum, maize, rice, millet, beans, cassava etc) are food

4) Food security. While sugarcane has caused significant hunger in our region, all the crops that our grain facility (and subsequent integrated plant) will be getting local farmers to grow on a large scale (sorghum, maize, rice, millet, beans, cassava etc) are food crops. This will strongly contribute towards food security in our region.

crops. This will significantly contribute towards food security in our region.

Help us change this by installing a grain cleaning, drying and storage facility that will create new market linkages for rural poor smallholder farmers in our region. This facility is only part of what will ultimately be an integrated agro-processing plant. Our integrated agro-processing plant, once installed, will place the rural poor in our region on a self-sustainable path from poverty by creating markets for various types of crops.

Help us install a grain facility that will create new market linkages for rural poor smallholder farmers in our region. This facility is only part of what will ultimately be an integrated agro-processing plant. Our integrated plant, once installed, will place the rural poor in our region on a self-sustainable path from poverty by creating markets for various types of crops. This page however is raising support for the grain facility alone.

Once this grain facility is in place, our goal is to expand our current white sorghum project to cover every village in Kamuli and Buyende, a region that comprises 1,123 villages, with over a million people and 165,000 households (details). We will only scale our work to cover the whole of Busoga once we have developed our integrated plant.

 

4) Food security. Sugarcane has brought a lot of hunger to our region because it can’t be eaten as food. But with this grain facility, our farmers will now be able to grow and sell real food crops like sorghum, maize, rice, millet, beans, peas and cassava. This will help put food back on our tables and bring back food security to Busoga.
4) Food security. While sugarcane has caused severe hunger in our region, all the crops that our grain facility (and subsequent integrated plant) will be getting local farmers to grow on a large scale (sorghum, maize, rice, millet, beans, cassava etc) are food crops. This will significantly contribute towards food security in our region.

 

Once this grain facility is in place, our goal is to expand our current white sorghum project to cover every village in Kamuli and Buyende, a region that comprises 1,123 villages, with over a million people and 165,000 households. Details here and here.

 

Our region Busoga is Uganda’s poorest. But we can change this with your help.

We have tried to raise support for this grain facility (and the integrated agro-processing plant) for ten years, as you can see in our presentation before the UNDP Uganda senior team back in 2017. In those ten years, everything just hasn’t worked out.

Every household in our region is a smallholder farmer, and the biggest challenge that keeps every farmer in our region in chronic poverty, is the absence of reliable markets for our produce. Currently, the only crop that has a relatively available market in Busoga, is sugarcane. For this reason, nearly every household in our region only grows sugarcane. And today, Busoga is the biggest sugarcane producing region in Uganda.

The result has been: a) increased hunger (see 1, 2), because every household is growing sugarcane, yet sugarcane can’t be eaten as food, b) increased poverty, because sugarcane takes two years to mature, and c) even when it finally matures, many times farmers simply do not earn any money from their sugarcane as a result of monoculture and overproduction — everyone is growing the same crop, leading to very low prices, and at times the inability to find a singe buyer for their produce.

Help us change this by installing a grain cleaning, drying and storage facility that will create new market linkages for rural poor smallholder farmers in our region. This facility is only part of what will ultimately be an integrated agro-processing plant. Our integrated agro-processing plant, once installed, will place the ultra poor in our region on a self-sustainable path from poverty by creating markets for at least 6 different types of crops.

 

The grain facility, alone, will also have big impact:

1) New market linkages. Currently, our nonprofit (the UCF) is running a white sorghum project, and our farmers’ sorghum is bought by Uganda Breweries. Once this facility is in place, it will make many other big buyers to view us as strategic partners (including international relief agencies like the WFP, UNHCR, World Vision, GOAL, Red Cross etc), enabling rural farmers in our region to access high value markets for their produce.

2). Catalyzing self-sustainability. Currently, our project provides all our target farmers with free initial inputs (seed, tarpaulins, liquid fertilizers/pesticides, spray pumps etc) only as a hand-up, because many can’t afford them. This is where this grain facility will help.

On the one hand, the presence of this facility will in itself be an assurance to all local farmers of the presence of a ready market for their produce (including those farmers whom the UCF hasn’t been supporting directly), giving them the self-urge to secure the needed inputs on their own, and take part in our work. On the other, for those farmers whom the UCF is currently providing with inputs, the market linkages and partnerships that this facility will create… will give these farmers a steady income stream, and in turn, the self-motivation to produce more, and thus the ability to use their own incomes to secure the needed inputs on their own, making our overall work self-sustaining.

3). Diversifying incomes for the rural poor. This grain facility will create market linkages not just for sorghum, but also for many other crops like maize, millet, rice, beans, peas etc, which are also bought by many institutional buyers (like the UN’s WFP), but which rural farmers in our region have previously never had a mainstream market for. This will enable the rural poor in our region to diversify their incomes and escape poverty.

4). Food security.

 

Note:

With this grain facility in place, our new goal is to expand our current white sorghum project to cover every village in Kamuli and Buyende, a region that comprises 1,123 villages, with over a million people and 165,000 households. Details here and here.

 

Total cost:

This facility will be installed by British firm Alvan Blanch, at a total cost of £339,403 (see detailed Quote). Note: as mentioned in this quote, however, the £339,403 only covers plant equipment, and its transportation from Alvan Blanch’s offices in the UK to Mombasa Kenya, not Uganda. The total cost for installing this facility will be $814,000.

With this money, however, our grain facility will have only one silo (of 1,000 tons). If we can raise a little more money, we will install a few more silos to give our facility more storage, and the ability to handle different types of grains at once.

 

Help us raise this money:

We have tried to raise support for this grain facility (and the integrated agro-processing plant) for ten years, as you can see in our presentation before the UNDP Uganda senior team back in 2017. In those ten years, we have explored every option in vain.

For this reason, UCF founder Anthony recently created (in 2024) a campaign asking the crypto/web3 community across the world to help us raise the needed support. If you are someone from the crypto/web3 community and would like to help, please see our wallet addresses below this page, or visit Anthony’s web3 campaign here: dear-crypto.org/

If you are a non-crypto user, you can also contribute dollars here. Similarly, you can also support us by making a wire transfer, or via Employee Workplace Giving where your donation will be matched by your employer. Please use the details on this page.

Your support could be the turning point that Busoga’s ultra poor have been waiting for.

 

Our crypto wallet addresses:

All contributions are converted to USDT to minimize fluctuation.
Total contributions (in USDT) received as of March 26, 2026:   0.000

BTC  (network: Bitcoin): bc1q0ythhk5t23mukwta3n0wgq4azv8dsm0an0tvyf9sfe07xewxtmgshgz5v3

ETH (network: Ethereum): 0x34f0151233f28c096df831656cd205858cf38077

SOL (network: Solana): 9jyeb1PkAgH7k8SojPMCR2uQJzbSckxgkqicbsB66FSt

BNB (net: BNB Chain): 0x34f0151233f28c096df831656cd205858cf38077

CELO (network: Celo):  0x34f0151233f28c096df831656cd205858cf38077

USDT (network: TRC20): THYedyCpBTUZJnLRYkPLumW4ruysqHKYMY

XRP (Ripple,  Tag: 6432402): rBuZfn1m4tA6znziHsRp9AyC1M3qg6rgbF

LTC (network: Litecoin): ltc1qyqd9uwh94v88jy67wwfp7tqlkj0cau8awp02qgxqwt5nsypcewwsv7gzwu

POL (network: Polygon): 0x34f0151233f28c096df831656cd205858cf38077

USDC (net: Ethereum):  0x34f0151233f28c096df831656cd205858cf38077

DOGE (net: Dogecoin): A6kVGemtoCSH5KzekuyEMhdfcRgwJsfQwp

UNI (net: Ethereum): 0x34f0151233f28c096df831656cd205858cf38077

TRX (network: TRON): THYedyCpBTUZJnLRYkPLumW4ruysqHKYMY

FET (net: Ethereum): 0x34f0151233f28c096df831656cd205858cf38077

WLD (net: Ethereum): 0x34f0151233f28c096df831656cd205858cf38077

AAVE (net: Ethereum): 0x34f0151233f28c096df831656cd205858cf38077

LINK/Chainlink (Ethereum): 0x34f0151233f28c096df831656cd205858cf38077

 

Thank you – Anthony, founder UCF.

anthony@ugandafarm.org  |  whatsapp: +256 759 908591  |  twitter.com/KaluluAnthony

 

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Help us fight extreme poverty here in Busoga, Uganda’s poorest region, with a Grain Facility.

 

This page was created on Oct 1, 2025 by UCF founder Anthony | @KaluluAnthony

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