When the Yesu-Dit Cooperative Society in Parombo Sub-County, Nebbi District, installed a cassava processing plant a few years ago, it hoped to spark higher productivity among its 1,200 members by adding value to their produce.
Production rose as more farmers planted cassava, but the hope and enthusiasm did not last.
The processing plant needed power, which came from a diesel generator provided as part of the government-run, World Bank-funded Agricultural Cluster Development Programme.
Soon, however, the cost of water needed in the production process and that of running the generator burnt through any profits.
“We buy water at Shs300 per jerrycan and in a month, we spend about Shs300,000,” says Louis Onen, the chairperson of the cooperative society.
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