The document discusses the benefits of small-scale integrated livestock farming in Uganda, emphasizing its feasibility, productivity, and profitability. The author, a smallholder farmer, shares how this approach has enhanced their family's livelihood and supported education for their children. It also highlights the importance of sharing research solutions and providing training to optimize such farming practices.

1. Emma Naluyima
(Smallholder Farmer, Private Veterinarian)
Livestock and household-level economic
development: An example from Uganda
Raising
cattle
Raising pigs
Growing
matooke
(cooking
banana)
Producing
fish, fodder,
vegetables
and fruits
Expert panel: Sustainable solutions for the livestock sector. the time is ripe! 10th Global
Forum for Food and Agriculture, Berlin, 19 January 2018

2. Key messages
 Small scale integrated livestock farming is
feasible, productive and profitable
 It has made a difference to my family’s
livelihood by supporting mine and my
children’s education, providing stable
income.
 Research solutions need to be shared more
widely and training provided. I have been
able to set up a school to provide a
foundation for local children.

3. Livestock is fundamental to
life in Uganda
From the start:
The founder of the BUGANDA KINGDOM called Kintu
owned a cow and practiced integrated farming
Today:
As well as food and income, people use livestock as a
‘bank’ and ‘insurance’ (eg school fees, medical, dowries
and to support crop production)
Here’s how it works for me and my family

4. My farm: One Acre Unlimited
 One quarter: raising pigs
 One quarter: raising cattle
 One quarter: growing matooke (cooking
banana)
 One quarter: producing fish, fodder,
vegetables and fruits

5. My farm: One Acre Unlimited
Raising
cattle
Raising pigs
Growing
matooke
(cooking
banana)
Producing
fish, fodder,
vegetables
and fruits

6. 1st Quarter: pigs
 Dung
 Urea/manure
 Maggots (feed for fish and chickens)
 Earthworms and pesticide from vermiliquid
 Biogas
 And all of this before:
 …..pork
Raising
cattle
Raising pigs
Growing
matooke
(cooking
banana)
Producing
fish, fodder,
vegetables
and fruits

15. 2nd Quarter:
raising cattle
 Five zero grazed cows on 0.1 acre
 By using manure to enrich the soil 1 m2 can feed a
cow by planting maize for silage
 This is profitable!
 Each cow gives 20 litres/day, which can be sold for
US$ 3000 over a year
 Dung is used for biogas
 Slurry from biogas is used as fertilizer
Raising
cattle
Raising pigs
Growing
matooke
(cooking
banana)
Producing
fish, fodder,
vegetables
and fruits

21. 3rd Quarter:
matooke
• Using slurry from cows and urine from
cows and pigs as fertilizer
• 30 bunches a month, each sold for a
minimum $10
Raising
cattle
Raising pigs
Growing
matooke
(cooking
banana)
Producing
fish, fodder,
vegetables
and fruits

23. 4th Quarter:
fish, fodder, vegetables and
fruits
• An 8m X 15m area can have
10 tanks each with 1000 fish
• 10,000 kg of fish harvested in six
months: 10,000 X $2.5 = $25,000
The same space can yield 4,800kg
tomatoes with a value of $2,700 over
six months
Raising
cattle
Raising pigs
Growing
matooke
(cooking
banana)
Producing
fish, fodder,
vegetables
and fruits

28. Key messages
 Small scale integrated livestock farming is
feasible, productive and profitable
 It has made a difference to my family’s
livelihood by supporting mine and my
children’s education, providing stable
income.
 Research solutions need to be shared more
widely and training provided. I have been
able to set up a school to provide a
foundation for local children.

29. THANK YOU