Livestock farming for BMCT beneficiaries is used majorly as a source of income for more than 60% percent of the households. Under our annual project funding disbursments, we normally give out between 60-100 heads of livestock including sheep, goats, pigs and a few cows. Our farmers have been trained in livestock management including disease control and nutrition to boost productivity.
Farmers that have been able to meet their economic setbacks through the sale of some of their livestock hail BMCT for the livestock project.
Since 2016, we started the revolving heifer project, for sustainability of the livestock project. Todate, 16 families have already benefited from the project.
“I think, my daughter would have lost her leg when she got an accident had it not been for my cow, I sold its calf that took care of the hospital bills” reminisces Grace Bimanywoha one of the Heifer beneficiary from Kisoro district.
We see a steady stride in the Heifer project and we hope to start cross breeding to improve project outputs especially for income generation.