Sanga Town, Kiruhura — Hon. Balaam has launched the scaling up of the apiculture project based in Sanga, a project set to transform the lives of hundreds of farmers through coffee-honey inter-twining in South Western Uganda.
The project is run by Rural Advisory Agriculture & Marketing Services (RAAMS) Ltd, located in Sanga Town Council, Kiruhura District.
RAAMS has been in existence for over 20 years with one aim: improving the welfare of local communities and their families in Uganda through commercial beekeeping.
Over those years, RAAMS has organized 350 small holder farmers — 210 of them women and youth — under the Sanga Apiculture and Coffee Farmers Group.
These are not big commercial farmers. They are ordinary mothers, youth and elders who have been keeping bees, earning a sustainable livelihood, and proving for years that beekeeping can change a family.
Hon. Balaam told the farmers of Sanga that government is now paying attention to enterprises that actually change lives at household level — not just big speeches, but bees, coffee, honey and money in the pocket.
He told the women and youth, who make up the majority of the 350 farmers, that they are the future of Uganda’s economy. That when a woman earns from honey, she pays school fees. That when a youth earns from beekeeping, he does not need to migrate to town to look for a boda boda job.
He assured the farmers that their request will be followed up, and that the dream of scaling apiculture in Sanga will not die on paper.
