Agriculture

Food Security and Agribusiness

4GROW works to empower women groups and their families in Bukedea/Kumi District using similar initiatives: providing piglets, goats, and turkeys, and training in proper agricultural practices that increase yields by planting pest and disease resistant varieties of cassava on ridges.

Cassava Project

The Cassava Project

A virus infecting 80% of the cassava crop with rot had greatly exacerbated the 2017 famine. Access to clean seed/cuttings (disease-free, pest resistant, high yielding varieties) is essential for the women farmers, as well as fair markets for produce. An independent cassava consultant was engaged to provide training on cassava growing and to help move the farmers from subsistence practices to undertaking cassava production as a business. The first highly successful harvest was gathered in the spring of 2019. Cuttings for replanting are now available from this harvest, allowing many more farmers to join in the project. 4GROW is working to upgrade practices of post-harvest handling and storage of the cassava crops, and planning a milling facility for our farmers with technology for enhancing the product with vitamin fortification.

Biointensive Gardening

In 2014, a one-week seminar was presented by Organics 4 Orphans, a Canadian NGO, to train the GROW women in Biointensive Gardening. 12 women and 5 men in the Tilling community were trained in biointensive farming and use of natural medicine alternatives, and each participant received a certificate and the gift of a household solar lamp.

Training in Biointensive Gardening

Biointensive Gardening by the Community

Irrigation Project

The 2013 irrigation project was carried out at GROW (Grace for Rural Orphans & Widows) on the one acre land

Irrigation Project - Part 1

Irrigation Project - Part 2

GROW Demo Garden

Women's Demo Garden

(preparing the 1 acre leased land)

Prepared nurseries where seeding were raised, transplanted to the main garden

Activities carried out in the GROW Demo Garden

GROW women weeding the ground nut gardens after first and second weeding

Piggery and Poultry

4GROW Piggery Project

4GROW Poultry Project

Eggs ready for sale - Income Generating Project