Day: May 10, 2016

Ms. Namususwa Ruth is a pig farmer whose journey started as a result of the Centre for Evangelism training in her village. She had always wanted to get a chance to learn how to take care of pigs but not got an opportunity. For a long time she had the idea to start pig famring but her challenge was lack of the required knowledge on how to look after pigs.

CFE started a program training people how to look after pigs in her community and she was invited by the community representative to join the program. Ruth joined and successfully went through the program. Immediately after the training she started looking for piglets and she bought one. That
piglet grew and started giving birth.

It gave birth to 9 piglets the first time, delivered an additional 10 piglets and then 6 piglets. After the last delivery, she sold off the parent pig because it had grown big. Altogether she sold 23 pigs but her challenge was finding a good market. The buyers were willing to offer only 6,000UGX. for a kilo that would cost more money in a good market. If each pig measures about 8 – 10kgs, then the farmer is left with a very small margin.
But even with the price challenges, Ms. Namususwa Ruth has something to celebrate from all the work she put in. She shared with us that she got the money after selling off the pigs and was able to buy a cow at 500,000Ugx. With the balance she got new stock of pigs on her farm.

Despite the challenges, Ruth is confident of the great yield to come. She encourages all farmers to get engaged in pig farming, they will make a living. Ruth also asked that CFE continues encouraging,
teaching and also consider helping farmers to find market for their products.