Presented by Ben Lukuyu and Emily Ouma, ILRI, at the Livestock CRP Priority Countries Planning Meeting, Nairobi, 26–27 March 2019

1. Uganda Pig Value Chain:
Initial ideas for Integrated Core Project
Ben Lukuyu and Emily Ouma, ILRI
Livestock CRP Priority Countries Planning Meeting
26 – 27 March 2019
Nairobi, Kenya

2. What we have learned so far
• Our focus value chain: Pig Value Chain,
Uganda
The major focus is on improving pig
productivity, incomes, and pork safety
through an environmentally sustainable and
gender inclusive integrated intervention
package.

3. What we have learned so far
• Achievements & lessons from Livestock & Fish
– Capacity building of farmers on improved husbandry
and biosecurity practices
– Capacity building of butchers on appropriate pork
slaughter and pork
– Use of feed rations from locally available resources
– Integration of high quality forages in pig diets
– Multi-stakeholder Platforms (MSPs) developed for
visibility of pig value chain and knowledge sharing for
stakeholders
– Capacity building of pig farmer groups in business and
governance issues.
– Developed business plan for centralised pig slaughter
facility in Masaka district.
– Developing equations for predicting pig live weight
using body measurements in pigs.
– Ex-ante assessment of pig biosecurity interventions

4. What we have learned so far
• Do we know enough to design an intervention?
– A situational analysis was conducted for the smallholder pig
value chain in 2014
– Pig Value chain assessments, were conducted with various
stakeholders in the pig value chain between April and June
2012 and identified the key challenges faced by the pig
value chain
These assessments are sufficient to provide evidence to move
our work into Phase 2
– There were series of reflection and feedback workshops
with various actors in the pig value chains to assess the
interventions we piloted
– May require another round of reflection and feedback
workshop with actors and partners to obtain feedback on
proposed interventions
– Partnerships and collaborations will need to be re-vitalized

5. What we have learned so far
• What could we reasonably expect to achieve as
outcomes by December 2021?
– Innovative models for increasing farmers’ access to
quality and reliable inputs and services for improved
pig productivity (productivity and income).
– Strategies for improving supply and access to quality
and safe pork products (more and safe).
– Innovations for improving farm management and
disposal of pig waste (environment and waste
management).
– Models for improving quality of commercial feeds
supplied in the value chain and animal welfare issues
(e.g. transportation of pigs, appropriate
slaughtering)

6. What an integrated intervention could look like
• Title: A strongly input and output market linked
integrated ‘best bet’ technological packages to support
smallholder pig farmers
• Target population: Eight million pig value chain actors
• Integrating our best bets
– The integrated intervention package will be a combination of improved genetics +
feeds + health+ Env. including appropriate husbandry practices and on-farm waste
management.
– New types of contractual arrangements that support stronger linkages between pig
aggregators, input suppliers and farmers will be piloted to incentivize uptake of the
integrated intervention.
• Key challenges
– We will require a fulltime Post Doc or Research
Assistant to conduct and monitor the interventions.
– A communications person will be needed to maintain a
high visibility set up in Phase 1.

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