President Yoweri Museveni has highlighted Uganda’s significant potential to boost profits from egg production through value addition.
He emphasized the importance of establishing a processing facility to convert raw eggs into powder, which could then be exported to various regions.
This initiative aims not only to enhance export opportunities but also to strengthen food security and improve nutritional standards within the country.
The President made these remarks during his visit to poultry farmer Evan Akampurira in Bubare trading center, Rubanda district, on February 12, 2025.
Akampurira is a participant in the Parish Development Model (PDM) in the Kigezi sub-region.
“We need to establish factories to process these eggs into products such as baby foods and nutritional foods to feed the elderly and the sick for the whole country and also for export,” he said.
The President highlighted that with the right processing and packaging, products can appeal to international markets, similar to what we see in the dairy sector.
He pointed out the dairy farmers in Nyabushozi, who are producing a significant amount of milk, while the local consumption in Uganda stands at only 800 million liters.
“What we did was to process the milk into different forms and pack it, and now we are exporting to countries like Nigeria, Algeria, and the rest. This is what we want to do with the eggs and the pigs,” he explained.
He argued that the key to alleviating poverty lies in intensive agriculture on small plots of land, focusing on high-yield products through the Four-acre model.
He proposed a diverse plan that includes dedicating one acre to coffee, another acre to fruit crops like mangoes, oranges, and pineapples, a third acre for family food crops such as cassava, bananas, Irish potatoes, or millet, and a fourth acre for pasture to support around eight dairy cattle.
He emphasized that farmers could also incorporate poultry for egg production, along with pig farming and aquaculture. Museveni pointed out that while infrastructure like roads, electricity, and hospitals are important, they alone won’t resolve household income issues.
He noted that the government can improve roads, expand electricity access, and build schools and hospitals, but it cannot generate wealth for every family.
“So, please, seek first household incomes, and the rest will be added unto you,” he noted.
Akampurira said the PDM program has changed her life.
“I heard the president in 2022 when he was launching the PDM to get Ugandans out of poverty. I also said I want to benefit from this money. I started preparing myself by constructing a poultry house,” she narrated.
She received shs1 million from the PDM fund, from which she spent shs375,000 to purchase 50 chicks.
After covering bank charges, she used the remaining funds to buy chicken feed and drinking supplies.
Three months later, she successfully sold the chicks, earning a profit of shs750,000.
With her profits, she then invested in 100-layer chicks at shs3,500 each, and within five months, she began collecting eggs. In her second venture, she generated an impressive profit of shs7,950,000 and subsequently expanded her business to include a piggery. She sells each pig for shs800,000.
