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Invetta Model Farm is a fresh look at poverty alleviation in rural Uganda. It puts forward a case for turning rural farmers into entrepreneurs as a way out of poverty.

Invetta Model Farm (IMF), is an integrated community farm that teaches good farming practices. Located in South West Uganda about 150 KM from the capital city Kampala, in Kalungu District in a vibrant green village of Kyamusoke. Kalungu District has an area of 811.6km² and a population of about 180,000 people. Invetta Model Farm is a demonstration plot, where farmers receive hands-on experience in preparing the land, planting fruit trees, controlling pests and diseases, managing the soil and harvesting the fruits. The model farm is on 6 acres of land, been planted with 160 commercial varieties of mangoes, 45 guava trees, 15 orange trees, vanilla vines,10 macadamia trees and intercropped in different seasons with various crops including birds eye chilies, African white egg plants and tamarillos (tree tomatoes).

Rural farmers grow crops on land between ½ acre and 3 acres for own consumption and sell a little for family needs; have low skills in farming; yields are very low leading to low income. IMF is changing all that through enterprising in integrated fruit farming. As an integrated farm we have fruit trees, grow crops and also carry out piggery farming.

Our mission once fully established is to increase household income of 50 selected families from £300 per year to a minimum of £3000 per year through fruit farming and animal husbandry within the next 3 years. IMF will provide start up subsidized products and services in form of seedlings, fertilizers, training, labour and farm machinery. IMF will purchase all their fruits at a higher than average market price. IMF is going to be processing all its fruits into high value fruit concentrates for export. And also add value on pork. Most of the fruits in Uganda are sold in local markets, but processors and export markets represent key opportunities for growth. Our current project is to make Invetta Model Farm a fully functional model farm with resources to spread fruit farming and piggery husbandly in Kalungu District

Why Commercial Farming

Commercial fruit farming can alleviate poverty in rural Uganda. A mango tree can yield 500 – 600 mangoes a year and has a productive life of more than 50 years. For rural farmers, like those in Kalungu District, this means introducing a new crop or finding new value in a product they had taken for granted. IMF will purchase all their fruits at a higher than average market price. IMF is going to process all its fruits into highest quality, high value fruit concentrate for export. Fruit concentrates fetch far higher prices on the world market than fresh fruit. With another added advantage of concentrates having longer shelf life than fresh fruits. With a market now available for their mangoes, the farmers are discovering a new source of income – and a new investment for their future. Sustainable fruit farming to farmers in Kalungu villages will mean quality education for their children; pension for the elderly and health insurance for all participating families

Why Commercial Farming

IMF ‘s financial analysis to accomplish phase 1

We are on the way to further develop what we’ve already accomplished into a truly sustainable model farm. We need £55,000 to complete Phase I of Invetta Model Farm: build a farm house: construction of own maize mill and building a biogas digester

Budget Of The Funds Required

IMF is striving to raise finance through business enterprise; founder’s contributions and also raising funding through grants and donations. Every additional dollar will go towards Phase II of the project which is – setting up a fruit processing plant and starting the Jumpstart Hope Program.

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