The Centre for Tobacco Control in Africa (CTCA) has won an award to pilot an innovative farming project to help farmers transit from tobacco to other alternative enterprises. The Project code named ‘Better Farming, Better Me, is worthy over 43,000$ and will be piloted in Hoima District, one of Uganda’s tobacco growing districts. The award is one of the seven grants given by the Resilient Africa Network (RAN) under the Resilience Innovation Challenge for Adverse Climate effects funded by USAID.
The Better Farming, Better Me Project will be implemented in conjunction with Good Leisure Farm. It is aimed at introducing Kroiler chicken farming and high yield maize as alternative enterprises to tobacco farming.