Piggery Business Project for Children in Uganda

“We have maintained a parent stock of 10 pigs,” each pig can produces 15 to 20 piglets every year.

“We sell each piglet at $33. This is indicative of how high modern farming can uplift society, and if every household in our community could do this as a business, every household daily income would increase.”- James, Project Leader

Although exotic pigs consume about 20% more food than local breeds, the heaviest weighs up to 300kg compared to 100kg, the maximum weight for local breeds.

A kilogram of pork costs between $3, in the urban area. We are able to use the proceeds from the venture to educate children and help the community with basic needs.

We urgently need to raise money for the installation of a 500 liter water to ease harvesting of rain water to sustain the pigs. The workers are currently having to get water from a well outside the farm on bicycles involving several runs a day and this can be very tough in the hot dry season.

We also need to purchase a small pick up truck to help with transportation of produce, feed, vet runs and any other farm work.

Here are responses from people who have visited the farm:

hey i want those exotic breeds-Juliet

Allen contacted us online:Hey my name is Allen am interested in those exotic breeds how much do you sell piglets of two months you can contact me on this on……. or my email adress is ……@Yahoo.com i will appreciate it so much waiting for your reply thanks in advance.

This seems to be a promising business of which if more funds are added, can really sustain the home and the community at large.

Thank you for continuously donating to this particular project, I appreciate your help.

Hi,

Great we are here again, I know you are eager to learn more about the project, last week we were visited by 2 butcher owners, all of them want us to supply them with pork, there is high demand now but the  supply is still low, most of the farms have been attacked by swine fever, but thank God we are not affected.

By this time next year we will be able to supply over 5 farms in amonth, now that a kilogram of pork costs $4, one pig weighs between 80-90 kilograms, there fore one pig alone will fetch us $360, this will be a very big a chievement in the organization. All this will happen next year, why wont the children go to school?, why wont we do most of the hings without any other external hand, we are dreaming ahead and we will be there.

Thank you very much, and especially to those that have kept on giving money monthly, we also appeciate your feedback, thank you.