John Omoding
28 July 2008
Kampala — The Uganda Red Cross Society has donated 30 oxen and 15 ox-ploughs to 15 women farmers groups in Orungo sub-county, Amuria district.
The acting secretary general, Michael Nataka, recently said the programme sought to help farmers access more food and increase their income through commercial farming.
The project, he said, was part of the agency's food security programme that targets 60 farmers groups.
Nataka said the farmers would be organised into blocs with the aim of modernising their production methods, adding that they would team up with Arapai Agricultural College to implement the programme.
Under its floods recovery programme in Teso region, the society built 10,000 flood resistant huts and supplied 10,000 households in Katakwi and Amuria with seeds, Nataka revealed.
The agency, he observed, had distributed 60,000 seed kits and tools, rehabilitated 30 boreholes, built 20 VIP latrines and 15 ECOSAN latrines in the two districts.
Refugees state minister Musa Ecweru said the Red Cross a credible humanitarian organisation.
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