Successes and Failures with
Technology Interventions on Pig
Feeding Promoted in Uganda
D. Mutetikka
“Workshop: In-depth smallholder pig value chain
assessment and preliminary identification of best-bet
interventions, Kampala, 9-11 April 2013”

Outline
• Introduction
• Status of the feed Industry in Uganda
• Major Players and Activities
• Successes
• Challenges

Introduction
Overall Objective
• Increased productivity and marketed share of
output for economically active smallholder
pig farmers
Immediate Objective
• Widespread adoption of pig productivity
enhancing technologies that respond to
constraints of poor feeding, inappropriate
breeding, disease control and
improved marketing.

Status of feeds industry
• A number of manufacturers
• Ugachick, Formula feeds, Kagodo,
Nuvita, Bulemezi.
• Roadside feed mixers
• Home mixing
• On-farm feed production

Major Players
• Makerere University
• MAAIF
• National Agricultural Research
Organization (NARO)
• NAADS
• AICAD
• VEDCO and SG2000
• CARITAS
• Private Individuals

Major Players
Makerere University
• Characterization of pig feeding
systems and feeding resources.
Activities
• Conduct baseline survey to and characterize
system.
• Identify available feeding resources

Major Players
Nutritional characterization of existing
feeding resources, to develop
appropriate feeds and feeding strategies.
Activities
•Determine chemical composition and physical
properties of feed resources
•Formulate appropriate diets

Major Players
Processing to improve availability of
nutrients.
•Suitability of the different brans for
feeding growing pigs (wheat, rice and
maize)

Major Players
MAAIF
• Feed quality campaign-radio and TV
programs
• Developing an animal feeds policy
• Storage, mixing, and processing
• Follow up and enforcement-none
• No minimum standards for operating a
feeds store.

Major Players
National Agricultural Research Organization
Activities
Livelihoods analysis followed by ranking
•Best bet interventions tested with farmers

Major Players
NAADS
A government parastatal
Activities
Training of farmers on husbandry
Provision of inputs
Formation of enterprise groups
Acquisition of inputs

Major Players
AICAD – African Institute for capacity
Development
Activities
Develop capacity through training using
expertise in Universities
Follow up of trainees and using ex-trainees as
trainers

Major Players
• SG2000
• Use of QPM
• To reduce cost of feeds because QPM
is better in protein quality. (more
tryptophan and lysine).
• Support farmers with seed, pigs and
pass on young pigs. A contract with
the farmers.

Major Players
VEDCO
Activities
•Conduct training/demonstration
•Draft dissemination materials
•Organizing farmers into groups
•Assisting with feed aquisition

Challenges
• Limited resources for investment (farmers)
• Poor business disposition/acumen
• Seasonal supply of feeds/resources
• Fluctuations in prices of feeding inputs

Way Forward
 Develop feeding calendars for different agro-
ecological zones
 Operationalize the animal feed policy
 Develop strategies to reduce the costs of
feed inputs
 More fully exploit locally available feed
resources
 Pig management strategies to match
availability of feed resources with objective
of minimizing costs
 Stratify the pig industry into farrow to wean
and wean to finish operations