Uganda - Farm Income Enhancement and Forest Conservation Project

The Farm Income Enhancement and Forest Conservation Project is designed to support Government’s Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture. This plan aimed at increasing incomes and improving the quality of life of poor subsistence farmers and their household. It also aims to ensure food security, provide gainful employment and promote sustainable use and management of natural resources. The project will direct its efforts towards using small-scale irrigation facilities and improved soil fertility management practices, to produce and market high value crops. In addition, the project will conserve and protect the environment through strengthening watershed management using well established structures at national, district, sub-county, village/community levels. It will address deforestation and problems of natural resources degradation. The project comprises three components, namely: i) Forestry Support, with two sub-components (Community Watershed Management; and Tree Planting); ii) Agricultural Enterprise Development, with four sub-components (Soil Fertility Management; Small Scale Irrigation and Crop Development; Apiculture Promotion; and Agricultural Marketing); and iii) Project Coordination and Management.