Farmers from Kyegegwa district during their hunt for different modern farming skills managed to visit Buseesa Community Development Organization (BCDO) Demo farm in Kibaale District.
This happened on 04th /11/2023 at BCDO demo farm in Buseesa Trading Centre, Matale Sub-County Kibaale District.
During the visit Richard Lubega a model farmer at BCDO demo farm advised the farmers to embark on the modern methods of farming if they are to benefit from farming and be considered successful farmers.
He cautioned them to go and practically apply what they have seen at BCDO demo farm on their farms such that they can also be exemplary farmers to the community so that the gospel of modern farming can practically spread throughout the country confirming that it will leave a developmental impact on the communities which is one of the pillars of Buseesa Community Development Organization (BCDO)
He continued to technically explain how sanitation can be improved at the farm where he described the use of indigenous microorganisms(IMO) something he said that it can eliminate the unpleasant orders, accelerated pig growth, improved feed utilization, cost effectiveness, and safe environmentally friendly practices.
He said that the use of IMO is the easiest and if applied it can also help prevent animals from being attacked by some diseases due to the clean environment.
On the same day the farm received four visitors from Hoima Catholic Diocese who came with the purpose of finding out how possible it is for one to earn over 280millions annually just from 1 and half an acre of land.
This happens following the Prime Minister’s visit at the farm in early October where she declared Richard Lubega a Model farmer in Kibaale district the best among all the rest in the whole district after finding out that he harvests over 280millions annually from just 1 and a half an acre of land that he uses for farming that almost everyone looked at as impossible compared to a four model acre preached by President
“It has influenced very many people from different corners of the world to visit the farm physically or via the web site (www.busesacdo.org) and other online channels such as Tik Tok, Facebook, ‘X’ and many others, says Richard Lubega”
Lubega Richard a farmer who deals in different farming projects such as piggery, goats, poultry, cattle, and fish farming has managed to transform his life and he is so far among the success full farmers in the country according to Prime Minister Nabanja Robinah during her visit on the same farm after being impressed by Richard’s innovations and creativity.
Meanwhile, the farmers were also impressed by Richard’s projects and they showed their willingness to also try a one and a half acre model initiated by Richard Lubega convincing that it is a true expression of modern farming because a very small piece of land is used to run over ten projects.
In their observation they also observed that cheap and local materials are used on the farm more especially in constructing shelters for the animals where sow dust is used instead of cement, timbers and many other local materials something they considered affordable and available in the day today environment.
