1. A.     Introduction:

 

Agricultural Production is the major economic activity in Kalungu District. Over seventy (70%) percent of our community derive their livelihoods from this economic activity. The national as well as our local strategic objective for the agricultural sector is to achieve prosperity for all. The sector is charged with increasing rural household incomes and improving the food and nutrition security for all residents in the district.

 

B. Mandate of the Production and Marketing Department:

 

As insinuated above, the Production and Marketing Department is responsible for promoting agricultural production and commercial activities in the district. We therefore take the lead in promoting Local Economic Development (LED) to increase household incomes and increasing household food and nutrition security.

 

 Our mandate is best articulated in Part 2 of the second schedule of the Local Government Act CAP 243, which states that; the functions and services for which the district council is responsible for include among others;

 

1.  Crop, animal, and fisheries husbandry extension services
2. Entomological services and Vermin control
3. Trade development services
4. Commercial inspectorate, and
5. Cooperative development

 

 We fulfill the above mandate through various strategies. These include but are not limited to the following; agricultural advisory or extension services, promotion of new and  improved technologies and practices, prevention and control of pests and diseases, promotion of value addition and improved marketing, quality control and regulation, farmer institutional development, among others.

 

 The department comprises of the following sectors; Crop, Livestock, Fisheries, Entomology and Commercial services. A brief description of the mandate of each sector is presented below;

 

No.	Sector	Sector Head	Mandate
	Crop	Mr Ssenyonga Richard	Crop husbandry Extension Services
	Livestock	Dr Ssimbwa Henry	Livestock husbandry Extension Services
	Fisheries	Mr Byangwa Daniel	Fisheries husbandry Extension Services
	Entomology	-	Entomological services
	Vermin Control	-	Vermin control and management
	Commercial services	Mr Mpagi James	Trade development, Commercial inspectorate and cooperative development services

 

 Until Financial Year 2013/14, the Department also used to implement the NAADS program. However, at the beginning of Financial Year, 2014/15, the NAADS arrangement in Local Governments was disbanded. It was replaced by the Operation Wealth Creation intervention, which is being jointly implemented by Army Officers together with the District.

 

As a department, we are committed to providing agricultural services to all farmer categories, ensuring equitable service delivery across the district while paying special attention to women, youth and PWDS.

 

 C.     STAFFING:

 

District Level: We have 7 technical staff deployed against 16 in the approved structure - (48%) staffing level. These include the following;

 

No.	Post	Staff in Post	Substantive Appointment of Staff in Post	Tel. Contact
	District Production Officer	Mr Kiyemba Paul	District Production Officer	0701 633 898
	District Agricultural Officer	Mr Senyonga Richard	Senior Agricultural Officer	0701 824 011
	Agricultural Officer	Mr Buwembo Akaya	Agricultural Officer	0701 431 264
	District Veterinary Officer	Dr Ssimbwa Henry	Senior Veterinary Officer	0706 400 266
	Animal Husbandry Officer	Ms Mukisa Martha	Animal Husbandry Officer	0785 666 244
	District Fisheries Officer	Mr Byangwa Daniel	Fisheries Officer	0703 710 600
	District Commercial Officer	Mr Mpagi James	Commercial Officer	0756 861 091
	Office Attendant	Mr Issah Saddat	Office Attendant	0777 823 357

 

 Departmental Staffing Structure and Vacant posts: The district level production departmental structure was customized and approved. Details are indicated below;

 

No	Post	Approved	Salary Scale	Filled	Vacant
	District Production Officer	1	U1E	1	0
	Principal Agricultural Officer	1	U2Sc	0	1
	Principal Veterinary Officer	1	U2Sc	0	1
	Principal Commercial Officer	1	U2L	0	1
	Principal Fisheries Officer	1	U2Sc	0	1
	Senior Agricultural Officer	1	U3Sc	1	0
	Senior Agricultural Engineer	1	U3Sc	0	1
	Senior Veterinary Officer	1	U3Sc	1	0
	Senior Fisheries Officer	1	U3Sc	0	1
	Senior Entomologist	1	U3Sc	0	1
	Senior Commercial Officer	1	U3L	0	1
	Animal Husbandry Officer	1	U4Sc	1	0
	Veterinary Officer	1	U4Sc	0	1
	Fisheries Officer	1	U4Sc	1	0
	Entomologist	1	U4Sc	0	1
	Commercial Officer	1	U4L	1	0
	Driver	1	U8U	0	1
	Office Attendant	1	U8U	1	0
	Office Typist	1	U7U	0	1
Total		19		7	12

 

 

 

Sub-county Level Staff: We have thirteen (13) staff based in the different LLGs as follows;

 

No.	Names	Title	Station	Tel. Contact
	Mugabi Patrick	Agricultural Officer	Bukulula	0751 934 035
	Lukyamuzi Muhammad	Agricultural Officer	Kyamulibwa	0704 151 764
	Lukyamuzi James	Assistant Agricultural Officer	Lwabenge	0759 492 891
	Nakisaka Eva	Assistant Agricultural Officer	Lukaya T.c.	0701 294 426
	Mawanda Rodgers	Assistant Agricultural Officer	Kalungu	0702 669 690
	Nakabuubi Robina	Assistant Agricultural Officer	Kalungu T.c.	0702 257 618
	Lule Jarvis (Dr)	Veterinary Officer	Lwabenge	0786 095 252
	Nabisubi Hellen	Animal Husbandry Officer	Lwabenge	0751 453 648
	Zziwa George William	Hides Improvement Assistant	Kyamulibwa	0774 151 898
	Nanseera JohnBosco	Assistant Animal Husb. Officer	Kyamulibwa	0701 890 989
	Mbawa Justine	Assistant Animal Husb. Officer	Kalungu	0753 058 868
	Kasoma Paul	Assistant Animal Husb. Officer	Bukulula	0772 382 566
	Mr Matege Habel	Assistant Fisheries Officer	Bukulula	0702 317 987

 

The Sub-county structure was also customized and approved. Each Sub-county is supposed to have an Officer and an Assistant Officer cadre in the Crops and Veterinary sections. Recently some Crop and Livestock Extension staffs, that is, Agricultural Officers, Assistant Officers and Assistant Animal Husbandry Officers were recruited. Each sub-county at least is now staffed. A process to fill some of the remaining vacant posts is on-going.

 

D.     Role of Councilors in Production and Marketing Departmental Activities:

 

The most critical roles we expect from honorable councilors include the following;

 

1. Mobilization.
2. Publicity and public relations.
3. Mentoring / role modelling.
4. Monitoring.
5. Legislation (We urgently need ordinances on food security, and coffee quality control among others).
6. Budget appropriation.

 

 

 

1. E.     Crop Coverage:

 

The major crop enterprises are bananas, coffee, maize and beans. The estimated area under these crops in hectares is as follows;

 

No	Enterprise	Kalungu S/C	Kalungu T/C	Kyamulibwa S/C	Bukulula S/C	Lwabenge S/C	Lukaya T/C	Total
	Banana	1,700	205	1,600	1,600	1,000	160	6,265
	Coffee	2,584	392	2,176	2,484	1,676	296	9,606
	Maize	185	20	135	130	160	12	642
	Beans	220	20	210	162	200	18	830
	Cassava	53	15	54	40	45	10	217
	Rice	-	-	-	25	-	145	160
	Citrus	30	8	20	18	20	5	101
	Mangoes	30	10	20	20	20	5	105

 

Source: Crop Sector, Kalungu DLG, May 2016.

 

 

 

1. F.     Prevalence of Banana Bacterial Wilt Disease (BBW) and Coffee Twig Borer (CTB):

 

The prevalence of BBW and CTB by June 2014 was still relatively high and indicated below. The figures have been brought down slightly. However, the problem continues to be critical.

 

Sub-county	No. of Parishes Affected		No. of Villages Affected		Estimated Prevalence levels		Key Actions taken
	BBW	CTB	BBW	CTB	BBW	CTB
Bukulula	8	8	74	78	25%	35%	Sensitisation; Formation of task forces; Enactment of legislation to aid enforcement of control measures & Monitoring & supervision
Kalungu	9	9	60	62	18%	30%
Kalungu T.c.	4	4	12	12	15%	32%
Kyamulibwa	6	6	51	53	20%	35%
Lukaya T.c.	4	4	15	15	15%	30%
Lwabenge	4	4	28	45	30%	35%

 

1. G.    Livestock Populations:

 

The major Livestock enterprises are Piggery, Dairy and Beef Cattle, Poultry and Goats. The estimated populations of the major livestock types are as follows.

 

No.	Type of Stock	Population
	Pigs	49,300
	Chicken	43,000 (Exotic) and 134,510 (Local)
	Local Cattle	30,309
	Dairy Cattle	10,583
	Goats	14,018

 

 

 

Lwabenge Sub-county is the major producer of cattle while Kalungu Sub-county leads in Piggery production.

 

Source: Livestock Sector, Kalungu DLG, May 2016.

 

1. H.    Capture Fisheries:

 

The District has three landing sites. These are; Bulingo and Kalangala located in Bukulula and Kamuwunga in Lukaya Town Council.

 

 

 

The average production figures from the three landing sites are as follows;

 

No.	Landing Site	Location	Average Fish Catches (Kgs) / Year
1	Bulingo	Bukulula Sub-county	4,148
2	Kalangala	Bukulula Sub-county	4,711
3	Kamuwunga	Lukaya Town Council	40,936
Total			49,795

 

Source: Fisheries Sector, Kalungu DLG, May 2016.

 

 

 

Interim Measures to curb illegal Fisheries Activities;

 

Government suspended the traditional fisheries standards enforcement activities in December 2015. Interim measures were instituted to allow for strengthening of fisheries reforms. As a consequence, Fish Landing Site Committees (FLSC) were constituted on all the three landing sites in the district. Details of their composition and contacts are available on demand in the District Fisheries Office.

 

 

 

1. I.       Fish farming:

 

Fish farming is relatively in its infancy. The status of the sector at the moment is presented below.

 

 

 

No	Category	Number of households Involved	Number of Ponds/Sites	Production (kg)
1	Stocked Fish Pond	15	52	1,800
2	Partially stoked	-	-	-
3	Un stocked Fish Pond	18	25
4	Abandoned	19	23

 

Source: Fisheries Sector, Kalungu DLG, May 2016.

 

 

 

The particulars and locations of the active households are available on demand from the District Fisheries Office.

 

 

 

1. J.      Commercial Services:

 

a)      Active SACCOs: The district has six (6) active SACCOs. These receive support from the District in terms of supervision.  A number of them also have running loans from the Micro-finance support center. These include the following;

 

1.                     i.            Lwabenge Community SACCO (749 active members). Miwuula Trading Centre, Lwabenge Sub-county.
2.                   ii.            Lwabenge Amazima Bwebugagga SACCO (579 active members). Miwuula Trading Centre, Lwabenge Sub-county.
3.                 iii.            Kalungu West SACCO (509 active members). Kyamulibwa Town board.
4.                 iv.            Kitosi Kweterekera SACCO (279 active members). Kyamulibwa Town board.
5.                   v.            Lukaya SACCO (343 active members). Lukaya Town Council.
6.                 vi.            Harmony SACCO (479 active members). Lukaya Town Council.

 

 

 

b)      Other Cooperative Societies: We also have several other Producer and Marketing cooperative societies. Details are available on demand from the District Commercial officer.

 

 

 

c)      Presidential Aid to Market Vendors: H.E. the President donated shillings 23,000,000/= (twenty three million) to market vendors of Kabaale-Bugonzi and Lukaya Markets, in Bukulula Sub-county and Lukaya Town Council respectively. The support was used to form a revolving fund to facilitate the vendors to grow their businesses. It is being managed by Lukaya and Harmony SACCOs.

 

 

 

d)     CAAIP Agro-processing Facilities: The Ministry of Local Government through its CAAIP financed construction of two Agro-processing facilities in the district, one in Kyamulibwa and Lwabenge. The one in Kyamulibwa is operational and already has a functional management committee and an outsourced operator.

 

The APF in Lwabenge on the other hand is not yet operational due to mobilization related issues. We hope this council and the other leadership in the district will help us to address this obstacle.

 

1. K.    Value Chain Analysis:

 

The practice of value addition and processing is relatively low. Details are as follows;

 

No.	Category	Number
	Agriculture Inputs Agents / dealers	22
	Processors/Value addition points	11 (mainly maize mills & coffee hullers)
	Seed multipliers / plant nurseries	59
	Abattoirs/Slaughter slabs	1 slaughter slab
	Farmer organizations and Cooperatives	4
	Milk Coolers	2

 

 

 

1. L.     OPERATION WEALTH CREATION:

 

As already indicated on Page 2, Government restructured the NAADS program during FY 2014/15. In the new arrangement, the program is responsible for input distribution, promotion of agribusiness and value addition.

 

The responsibility for distributing inputs / improved technologies is implemented in conjunction with Army Officers and the District through an intervention known as “Operation Wealth Creation” (OWC). Under the arrangement, Army Officers were deployed at Constituency level to take charge of this responsibility. Major Katongole Henry Wangi is responsible for Kalungu West Constituency, while Major Kavuma Teddy is responsible for Kalungu East Constituency.

 

 

 

Operation Wealthy Creation is a multi-stakeholder intervention where we all have responsibilities, including you as District Councilors. I have attached a summarized version of the Standard Procedures of Operation for the OWC  intervention for your information. Below is Summary of the inputs / technologies the district has received during the last three cropping seasons.

 

 

 

1. M.   UPCOMING ENTERPRISES:

 

Rice production is a major upcoming enterprise. It is being championed by Chinese Investors in Bukulula and Lukaya Town Council. The current area under the crop is about 160 acres. About 150 people are employed on the rice production farms on daily basis. The farms are contributing significantly to the local economy.

 

1. N.     FARMER INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

 

The umbrella association for farmers groups / associations and cooperatives in the district, Kalungu District Farmers Association, KADIFA, has been revived. The association has made a new constitution, expanded its interim structure and set up an office. They are in a vigorous membership mobilization and renewal. We also in the process of linking the association with SCC VI Uganda limited for a possible partnership.

 

 

 

1. O.    Recent KEY Investiments by CENTRAL Government:

 

 

 

1. 1.      Coffee Production:

 

Government has recently invested into coffee production in the district as follows;

 

No.	Financial  Year	Investment (No. of coffee seedlings)	Source of Funding	Location	Value Of Investment “000”	Estimated No. beneficiaries	Estimated Acreage Planted
	2012/13	400,000	NAADS	All 6 LLGs	200,000	1,300	850
	2012/13	100,000	UCDA	All 6 LLGs	30,000	300	200
	2013/14	700,000	UCDA	All 6 LLGs	350,000	2,000	1,550
	2014/15	170,000	OWC	Kalungu T.C & S/c  and Bukulula S/c.	85,000	500	300
	2014/15	525,000	NAADS (thru UCDA)	All 6 LLGs	262,000	1,700	1,160
	2013/14 2014/15	1,000,000	Presidential pledge through UCDA	Kalungu East Constituency	500,000	3,000	2,000
	2015/16	3,000,000	NAADS (thru UCDA	All 6 LLGs	900,000	8,900	6,667

 

 

 

1. 2.      Livestock Production:

 

The key investments in livestock production by the central government are as follows.

 

No.	Financial Year	Investment / Project	Source of Funding	Value “000”	Number of beneficiaries	Remarks
	2012/13	Procurement and distribution of 30 bucket pumps.	PMG Dev.	4,500	30 members of Kalungu District Elders Dairy Cooperative Society	There has been improvement in Disease control. Distribution lists are available with the DVO
	2012/13	6,000 liter Capacity milk cooler.	Presidential donation through NAADS	120,000	Eighty (80) direct beneficiaries and 90	The milk cooler was recently relocated to Bugomola in Lwabenge S/c.
	2014/15 & 15/16	Dairy Heifers	OWC	147	147	Some have been lost but others have calved.

 

1. P.      DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS INVOLVED IN THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION IN THE DISTRICT.

 

The major development partners in the sector include the following;

 

No.	Organization	Type of Activities	Operational Area
1.	Masaka Diocesan Development Organization (MADDO)	Sustainable Agricultural project focusing on; Milk production, Soil fertility management, Banana production and Cooperative Development	Lwabenge
2.	BRAC Uganda	Nutrition project focusing on; Production and utilization of Nutritious foods and Saving.	Bukulula
3.	Community Enterprises Development Organization (CEDO)	SENTE project focusing on Coffee and Beans Production and Marketing	Kalungu and Kyamulibwa
4.	Hans Neumann	Coffee Production and farmer institutional Development.	Kalungu, Bukulula and Kyamulibwa
5.	East Africa Dairy Development	Dairy Production with focus on Breed improvement and feeds and feeding.	Kalungu Sub-county & Kalungu Town Council.

 

 

 

These partners however do not actively share with us information regarding their activities. They usually do so for cosmetic reasons when their funders visit to monitor and evaluate them. The above notwithstanding, they make a valuable contribution to the development of the District and the welfare of our people.

 

 

 

1. Q.    Key Challenges:

 

Some of the most critical challenges and proposed solution are as follows;

 

No.	Challenge	Possible Solution
	Underfunding of the Department – Dept. share of Budget for FY 2015/16 was 1.7%.	Increase budget allocations to the department especially from local revenues and unconditional grant.
	Low levels of productivity and production across all enterprises.	Introduction of improved technology and production practices.
	Frequent and prolonged dry spells	Promote water harvesting and small scale irrigation techniques and lobby for valley tanks for water for production.
	Rampant vending of counterfeit agricultural inputs.	Strengthen the regulatory function to ensure more frequent inspections and prosecution of the culprits.
	Low value addition of agricultural produce and limited market access.	There is need to promote value addition through demonstration of technologies e.g., solar driers.
	Inadequate tractor hire services.	Provide tractors for hire to facilitate access to tractor services to the community.
	Declining soil fertility coupled with low application of fertilizers.	Promote and popularize increased use of fertilizers both inorganic and organic.
	Over exploitation of fish stocks due to rampant use of illegal fishing gear and trading in immature fish.	-Government should expedite finalization of new measures for fisheries enforcement regulation. -Leaders assist to sensitize fisher folk on dangers of use of illegal fisheries gear and harvest of immature fish.
	Frequent blockage of the channels connecting our three landing sites to the open waters of the lake.	Mobilize the landing site communities for bulungi bwansi against the water hyacinth weed.
	Reluctance by Youths who constitute the biggest proportion of our population to engage in agricultural production	Mobilization and sensitization of youths.