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

 

Written by UCF founder Anthony | @KaluluAnthony

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

Every household in our region is a smallholder farmer, but the biggest challenge that keeps every farmer in our region in chronic poverty, is the lack of reliable markets for our produce and poor postharvest systems. Today, our harvests rot because of just that.

 

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 crops.

 

Impact of the grain facility:

1) Postharvest handling. In poor countries like ours, poor postharvest systems not only result in food loss, they are also the leading cause of aflatoxin contamination especially in grains. Aflatoxin contamination in food has been blamed for things like cancer, among other health shortcomings. For this reason, most savvy buyers, e.g., the WFP (who is currently the biggest buyer of grains in Africa), have strict guidelines for buying grains like maize and sorghum, and require their grain suppliers to have their own established postharvest handling and cleaning facilities. This is where this grain facility will help.

2) 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, many more big buyers (including international relief agencies like the WFP, UNHCR, World Vision, GOAL, Red Cross etc) will view us as strategic partners. This will enable rural farmers in our region to access high value markets for their produce.

3). Diversifying incomes for the rural poor. This 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) Catalyzing self-sustainability. Currently, our project provides all our target farmers with free initial inputs, only as a hand-up, because many can’t afford them. This facility will change this by giving our target farmers a steady income stream for their produce. This will give these farmers the self-motivation to produce more, and in turn, the ability to use their own incomes to secure the needed inputs, making our work self-sustaining.

5) Self-scalability. The presence of this facility shall in itself be an assurance to 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, making our work self-scaling.

 

Note:

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.

 

Cost for the grain facility:

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 spent quite a number of years trying to raise support for this grain facility and the integrated agro-processing plant without success. So, to give ourselves a good shot, we are now accepting contributions both from the Bitcoin community & ordinary people.

If you are from the Bitcoin community and would like to help, see our addresses on ugandafarm.org/donate-crypto. If you are a non-crypto user, you can support us via online contribution; wire transfer, or Employee Workplace Giving where your donation will be matched by your employer. In all cases, please use the details on this page.

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

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Total contributions received towards this grain facility in USD from non-crypto users (via online giving, wire, workplace giving, phone transfer etc) as of July 14, 2026: $0.000
Total contributions (in USDT) received from crypto users as of July 14, 2026:   0.000

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Thank you – Anthony, founder UCF.

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