 I want to believe that each and everyone of us has had pork or a product that comes out of a pig. But what does it mean for the people that produce these pigs, the smallholder pig farmers scattered across Uganda? What are the challenges that they face on a daily basis as they grow the pigs from which we get all these delicacies? What is their relationship, for example, with the people that buy pigs from them? The aggregators, the people that go door to door in the villages looking for those pigs. Do they pay the right prices? Do they support them to grow those pigs? What exactly happens? Who supports them in terms of extension services? For example, access to artificial insemination, access to information, access to quality inputs, access to drugs? Who supports them? Is it government? Is it the private sector? Or is it the civil society organization? In order to support the smallholder pig farmers in Uganda to transform their businesses, we need to examine all these facets of their enterprise. What is their relationship with the people who buy pigs? What is their relationship with the government extension system? What is their relationship with the people who provide information, be it via the phone or via TV or via radio or through any media that they use to access the information that they need to do a good job? In order to do that, we must look not just upon the smallholder farmer that grows the pigs, but within the entire value chain to examine those relationships that are responsible for delivering the pigs and then from the pigs to the delicacies that we have and then examining the entire ecosystem surrounding the value chain, which in this case is the market system. We are trying to examine and analyze the bottlenecks, the failures that are within the pig value chain in Uganda that are preventing smallholders from becoming bigger in size, bigger in terms of what they produce, bigger in terms of their incomes and bigger in terms of so many other things. The margins of significance that we have created ww it helps providers access my house but as a tenant it having troubleish in partners kaka but it helps the把 it but contract you know it helps to get hills we have many Najiwa moutun tu, najiwa nohreburo kueso bolo surangiria. Ntiku macha o boke denoji sa uiro, o mudo, o budo de subi subi o isa maragara, oji teramu, emisa na noji re teramu isa brand. Deni o reburo, noji re teramu o mawata nadanganzi nzili sa iwi wata biha matoke, nebangazi surangaziria. Embizi nadara foka semkuro inoji teka ku brandi chikachi jezi no kuriantimu brandi. Embizi nadara nge nekuru goji tunirantimu. Nti teki na teku liya brandi ekamu karu. Kwa kati nganzi eungura brandi, eungura witi brandi. Ne mubamu ino tekebamu kone kumizu broken. Deni ne teka mua karunga kaitu wa concentrate. Biha intavura, ngeyo yemere iaio. Biha nebiyo, nebiyo omude, biha atibi na kwa isa justi suprimensi. Zio yungera koku jikusa. Ntiera o ino makinga shuwa. Embizi nge nekuru oruna kwe chitone niyo ewe ino kuriakironya. Nebiyo kuriabi so challenging. Tewa riwa taimurwe tukanga brandi arini. Obakasori arini. So chobo ino kuruantimu ina okui iyaiai ebirara. Ebi ino kuzimbanti chorwa na chimu embizi buliruna kubanga biha iridebi weza kiro zitanu. Chobo ranti neobu na usaze ujiwa, mawatobu ujiwa. Amarwa genzi, nganzi genzi risa sewa zino. Makinga shuwa ente mele genjiwa. E reachinga kunnamba ya kilo zitanu. Uka ingeno mama, ina jirisa burungi okuza kumbili okusobo roku waka. Atebu ii waka, enti diekumu okuri o burungiku okuza roba no bunji. Boda kuntu, obo ino jirisa okusobo roku da amangu. Chobo da yotu di keepinga nyoku brokeni. Na amarwa enti biho biri bi kuata murubuto. Kuba yotu baturuwa na chimo okuza weiti. Kufura ina ria arunda, atahinze nabara na enti embizi titu ino singo fokasingako. Bihebi okuri ya. Nensara enti embizi ziburi, embizi at least tiburi ya. Nginiwech tundu, nginiwech tundu chechi domoracha amarwa. Bue iria emanyu okutamira neye baka. Oba bue iria obo juwa damaru juwa namazi neinyuera ko, neye baka. Chichi giya amba kufuru iria renyuera neye baka, nezuukana, tiburi reye baka chichi giya amba ko, gezaako, okubu stingon biri guayo. Embizi zi ino, tuzirisa meizu brand. Nga wei na anyu na enti embizi feedingi ya entu femere embizi. Ogura meizu brand, ogura brokeni, no ogura concentrate, kainganze enti eka mune kawiti brand. Nga witi brand ine meizu brand, enti eka kufi gure maganjo, kumaganjo grain billas. Nga wei na concentrate, at least yei atero taamburi iria o, zi nisa wazi na jitu niya enti eka tekile sawa zi na irukunuskaka aga. Netu aji gura ko kumkumi niya bitana. Ngechichi tufosingo kuwanti tuno niya amarua, tumanyu oge na nemuote zi zhenja uro gura ga mawata ga ma toke, no gure nisa wei munga baju guze mitua rebiri. Moku gura ga amarua kainga ga mawata, amarua ntiburi chido mora baka kuguza enkumi satu. Nga wei na chi teka muntransporta, chitu saku farmu, nga wei neti tufosingo gende yu, uro wei bura no kuri niya kwe mere eyebisoro enja uro jitu koze sawa. No risi no genda no gure mere, nge mere uriya kutaburi ra roa kwa gara kutu, kuweza sente guze zomua, nga eita fayo kusoro chi chokorachi. Chisoro chokenda kuri isa, baka genda newa kudemero isinga sinunji, nea tenze chan fosingo kuwanti injiga, okue taburi re mere. Kuba otegeira wiki nense rimu chi soro cho, otegeira echi soro cho chi ce chiburamu, no soboro kutaburi mere inga, e tukanya, nembera echi soro cho chokorachi, chorunda. So chi okuza buri omunti, chiba beta buri murunzo, kuwango soboro tegeira, chisoro cho cheta ga mere chi, cheta ga chi risachi, chiburamu chi. Kuba boge na nomu gambo wu gambinti injiga gara mere in taburi, e imbeza ga gamba wu gambinti, penkumitsa burikiru. Nene mere giya kukuza sinunji. So, charengi ezezu, zitu fosingo kuwanga, zitu igiri zebintu ebimu, kuwe mere webe re rinu wange wuze, atetu genda re kambizi zife, ovo inokunu niya nore tanga, wende tanga marwa, neende tebi wata, nensa wane kumudu gundi arahundi. Nene ziteramu gatao. Echirunji chi imbeze, sokiya dara chiri chimu. Nte akatari kaya wekari. Echarengi je chiri mueriemu, ntiba sera. Nge nojeturi, oja sange mbizi inga, webo bojibazu wa nomu tukamu gamban, ja gare mitua reita, ajaku sera, echi nene niya ga gamban kuwe mitua reisa tu. Negu o gamban tii, e yange nginge na jitu ndamu kilo, obanzen titu ndamu kilo, ba gamba jiji pimi rawa, jiki ragena kuwe nus kanana reita, nukana ana. Nengatei eki ragena jitu ndamu suechitone niya kusawa zino yagumusa tu. Nga samutamu zi akua, nga asazen nezo zota demu tezifu deyo, zewaji gula tezifu deyo, ka ibo bako isa divante, jeyonti, tetu iina uo, chiri standardi, oba wantua rewa, gamban tuwa nuetuesi, gabo tuka oba soho kuja wakue, teka yo weikari, esizu uche kainachi muntiba seira. Chena ndi sabi e riawatu gula kembizi, riawatu kuera prasibona, niti atlisti, bandi badeba gezaako, okutunu rira ezu wio omori, wio omorunzi. So chena ndi sabi e, ba riya ko chitono, nafetu sigarengata atlisti, tufuna ko, baberenga abatu gula mu bei en tufu. Niti embizi boba bagi tunda kilo gumusa tu, omorunzi. Babu mugu zeko kukumu kumu rukumi, uwa gumu bili. Nafetu nafetu nafetu nafetu, mokurunzi, okurunda kuja kuakuturemi. Nisa wana gavumenti, gabo e yafayo, ne teka seituyo, ne teka kuva kwa vo, abatinjia ajivein ti, inti boba inarufu, abatinemizi nafetu gezeiko, batu wei e chintu e chiri gezei, nafetu seituyo. We had William talk about the issue of pricing in the pig value chain or within the pig market system. The fact is that the smallholder pig farmers are at the receiving end of low prices from the aggregators or generally the people who buy pigs from them. This is precipitated by the fact that the entire market system even including within the pig value chain we are seeing continuously a lack of transparency, a lack of information and this transparency and lack of information is being exploited by the buyers to offer low prices to the smallholder pig farmers. He said sometimes they even receive prices that are below the amount of money that they have used to grow the pigs. What does this therefore mean? It means that a smallholder farmer will be unable to save enough money to go that business because he is receiving a price that is below the cost of production. This is one of the major problems affecting the smallholder pig farmers in Uganda and it needs to be addressed by building a strong interrelationship between those farmers and the aggregators by working on the system that they use not only to buy but to again who controls it who sets the standards who provides the market information. Those are the critical things that we need to look at if we are to support the smallholder farmers who benefit from their work. Now to give you an idea about how the pricing of pork is highly skewed against a smallholder farmer in Uganda in this market if I were a pig buyer coming to buy a pig or pork from this farm I would pay William 8,500 shillings per kilo and then I would pay William 2,000 shillings from this farm and sell the same kilo of pork at 13,500 That ladies and gentlemen if it is not cheating then what is it? We are going to get the money and we will get the money before we even begin to sell meals and then if we sell food at the market we will just pay a small brand of food in the market this is going to be a business this is a country that sells food sometimes in teens when we are in the market … jou para kani talawai wa in Trying Qu Croco, спassifika syopia. Lab cha pyjita. screws special one Again, presents his own problems. First of all, it's expensive. Secondly, it's a laborious process. Thirdly, they are not trained. They cannot tell which kind of quality or quantity they are supposed to mix for animals of which size or which age. So again, we can see the kind of challenges that these farmers are faced with. They buy something that they are not comfortable with and then they mix them in proportions which are also not comfortable for them, but they have got to do that. They are not comfortable with the material of grain. Thirdly, we can see that they are not trained. Thirdly, they are not trained for animals of which size or quantity. We will see these things in the next generation. We will see them in the next generation. We will see them for a week. We will see them in the next generation. Mbizi wevera wa inu kuwa wa yonjo, chitegeze chi umbacha ayo, o inu chi semi tingawansi. So, bobato ina senten, adara finanza. Mbizi zeta aga senti, tinganze, mkutandi ke mbizi, narisi ina nyo senti, kwa nasoka nengure mbizi, atena guraanto. Chikwata gana nufuna, informasio mbizi, chikwata gana nufuna, mawiro baku wiki kuwata kumbizi, kwe ganga katu gambel kucho ukuli isa, kuchenda wili dha kuchensigi anjaba. Ntinganze, ntinganze ndila ke, ntingina oka smartphone ni kange, kanyambanze ngo muntu. Oku genda nesobo do kusachinga, mbizi zena kuli eitia. Na ewewewe sangantu wali o muntu arimu chaharo, ataina ea de smartphone. Iboba ina challenging nene, nange mkusoka naji ina ko. Ntaisoka ensi ea fejeturimu ei yu ganda, neboboda baku mbizi weiba kuba favori inga, obo jira weiba gamba ntuko gira kwa ugrikari chia, eo gira kuba rimi. O muntu atandi kukurunde mbizi, nga magiziga kwa zisa ganda iba iseo, nga mga mbe mbizi eo ina kora chino, mbizi eo ndwa do ii noji wei dagarari no, ntii informasioneri wei kwa taganakum bizi, oba kukurunda, sawa zino ontono. Ya, like extension support is a critical building block to a typical farmer in terms of advancement and progress in their respective industry. Of course, like any other farmer, the pig farmer needs extension support, but critical is, do they access the support? Well, what we're observing in the industry is, unlike probably poultry, cattle, mainly cows, livestock, it's a little bit uphazard when it comes to accessing extension support to a typical small holder pig farmer. Reason being that the industry is not well streamlined, not well organized, so you find that bits and pieces here and there. So the alignment to say technical support, for example at the sub-counter level, at the district level is not something that is forthcoming. So you find that a typical small holder pig farmer fence for information on their own and often times the kind of information they get maybe is information, second or third hand information that is coming maybe from another farmer. So you find that maybe they are not getting the raw facts of what exactly they are supposed to be doing. So we find ourselves seeing this small holder farmer grappling with a lot of challenges, yet they are easy to solve if at all there was a clear link with a government extension support or any private sector extension support. So we encourage that as the program is making the shifts, there's need to have a congruence, a kind of a meeting point between the extension support, technical, together with the private sector players as well as this small holder pig farmer. Mti okuma rikotsi mombizi ovo kuhuandiika okuma biuna expenses in o'input season nazo teka mombizi chirungi. Erachi kuru. Mbizi nairinga businesse zendara izengia uro. Ngabura wokore dukario, Ngabura wokora botikiyo, wokora businesse zendara izengia uro. Mbizi weziri. Mti mbizi naioboba toki pinzei rikotsi. Tugenda sobola tegeiri mbizi yungita demo centre meka. Checho-charengi jetufunantu omorunzo tukano kutunde mbizi noga mbabu gambi bampi demo centre weziti. Oruensonga titu manchi chewa jiteikamu. Chiku yambu tegeira uori oriku progresi uori kurosi. So from all the above, we need to ask ourselves, who has the best interests of the smallholder farmers at heart? Time and again we've heard that the smallholder farmers are facing an issue of access to finance. When we ask ourselves, is it that the smallholder farmers are not attractive to the financial institutions? Are there bottlenecks that are preventing smallholder farmers from accessing finance? What needs to be done to ensure that smallholder farmers are able to access not only finance but other products that they need in order to transform their businesses? We have also heard in the past that there is an issue of record keeping across the divide in the smallholder small agriculture sector in Uganda. How is this affecting the smallholder pig value chain in Uganda? How can it be addressed? Who is better placed to support the smallholder farmers to transform their activities based on knowledge, based on records, so that they can make the most appropriate decisions that they need in order to grow their enterprises?