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 UCCCU was established in 2005, registered under the 1991 Cooperative Union Act, registration number 7231, by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives (MTTI)with a membership of Seven District Cooperative Unions as indicated in the table below. UCCCU is a commercial arm of Uganda National Dairy Farmers Association (UNDAFA), and is a national union. UCCCU opened a secretariat in Mbarara in 2007 with seven unions as members, Sheema union joined later in 2009 and Isingiro union has been admitted as the ninth member following a resolution of the Fifth Annual General Meeting held on 30th March 2012. In the same AGM, the new Board of Directors was elected following the expiry of the term of office of the previous board UCCCU is a mouth piece of over 16,000 dairy farmers in South Western Uganda and serves over 30,000 dairy farmers through linkages to the market.
""Our vision is to be a leading farmer owned provider of high quality dairy products and services in the East African region." |
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2012 THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF COOPERATIVES |
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The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives, highlighting the contribution of cooperatives to socio-economic development, particularly their impact on poverty reduction, employment generation and social integration. |
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Plans and other Initiatives At UCCCU |
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For the last five years UCCCU has interacted with dairy farmers at primary level through various fora; we have evaluated various needs assessment studies that have necessitated to carry out focused feasibility studies that should be later turned into programs or projects to fulfill farmers requirements. The feasibility studies have specifically focused on;
Increasing production of at farm level
Processing of farmers milk (value addition) Farmer owned dairy processing plant.
Marketing farmers milk and milk products and providing Services to Farmers.
Others are;
The Youth Intervention program. |
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Investing in UCCCU Dairy processing plant |
UCCCU members are setting up their own dairy processing plant in Mbarara.
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SWEDISH COOPERATIVE CENTER (SCC)
Enhancement of Dairy Productivity (EDP) Phase II
After the end of EDP project in December 2010; an evaluation was conducted by an independent consultant and the report recognized the achievements so far gained, by lifting the dairy farmers from the state of hopelessness to a clear vision with a functioning organization. However, the issue of sustainability was quite prominent in the report. Without UCCCU completing the dairy processing plant and start generating its own income on sustainable basis the achievements so far realized would come to nothing.
For this reason the report highly recommended to SCC for continuous support to UCCCU by renewing the project for purposes of sustaining the farmers’ achievements and their vision, hence the EDP II.
The EDP II will leverage the sub-sector to new levels in terms of achieving the UCCCU objective of improving the capacity of the dairy farmers’ organizations to undertake profitable business through collection, processing and marketing of their produce. |
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The Dairy year book The 5th edition of the DYB 2012-13 is out. Get yourself a copy and be updated with the latest news and information from the dairy industry.
You can as well access our online version by visiting the UCCCU Documents section on this website.
Note: Preparations for the 6th edition are already underway. To be part of this edition, please send us an article as well as your details, and if possible, a recent passport photograph to the editor on the following e-mails:
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