The Private Sector Foundation Uganda will be at the fore front of implementing the Business Uganda Investment Scheme that is aimed at helping farmers from Northern Uganda add value to their farm products so that they can benefit more from their farm products.

Business Uganda Investment Scheme is one of the few schemes under the PRDP that will be funded by a grant from DFID (UK Department for International Development) of over 50 million shillings that the government received yesterday.

Gideon Badagawa

The Executive Director of PSFU Gideon Badagawa has told journalists that PSFU is ready to implement such a scheme because the best way of empowering people like those from NORTHERN Uganda is not by giving them hand outs of cash but by helping such farmers get sustainable incomes.

Badagawa says one of the ways of helping them get such sustainable incomes is to help them learn how to add value to their farm products since the majority of them are farmers.

He says that is why PSFU is glad and eager to implement such a programme that is aimed empowering farmers through teaching them how to add value to their farm products.

By Tiberindwa Zakaria, Ultimate Media