Businge is a model farmer who does not settle for less.

Published By MWE |  June 17, 2025

Mr. Jusus Businge is a man who can not settle for less. The chairperson of the
Nyamirama farmers group, formed under the Building Resilient Communities, Wetland
Ecosystems and Associated Catchments Project in Uganda.
The group has since received chicken, pigs, and goats. Businge used to cultivate at the
banks of river Ngolo.
However, government initiatives aimed at restoring wetlands ensured that community
members such as Businge have alternative livelihood options. Four down the road,
Businge is a happy man. He and the other 29 members of the group are experiencing
an upward change in their lives.

He rears chicken, goats, and pigs and cultivates vanilla, bananas, and coffee. The
proceeds from the above are helping him meet his domestic needs including paying
school fees, and medical bills among others. Besides, growing coffee, vanilla, and
bananas, in addition to rearing pigs, and goats, Businge has introduced fish farming at
the periphery of the river Ngolo.
He has three hand-dug fish ponds, which he stocked with 1000 fingerlings. “I decided to
diversify my earnings. I am using the river banks sustainably. Unlike previously, when I
used to grow crops. Now I have the ponds. I believe these pounds can give me another
stream of income. My challenge, though, is the issue of feeding. I feed the fish locally
using available materials- posho,” Businge explains.