{"id":4638,"date":"2026-03-26T18:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T18:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/udbl.co.ug\/blog\/?p=4638"},"modified":"2026-03-30T08:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T08:00:41","slug":"bukanga-dairy-farmers-cooperative-society-isingiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/udbl.co.ug\/blog\/bukanga-dairy-farmers-cooperative-society-isingiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Bukanga Dairy Farmers Cooperative Society &#8211; Isingiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, Bukanga Dairy Cooperative began with 30 farmers who chose cooperation over competition. They understood something powerful: when farmers move together, they move further.<\/p>\n<p>Today, they are 300 strong, united across four branches; sharing knowledge, pooling resources, and building a future that would have been difficult to achieve alone.<\/p>\n<p>With financing support from Uganda Development Bank, the cooperative secured a loan facility and extended it to their members. Together, they cleared bush, constructed valley dams to address water scarcity, purchased quality heifers, and invested in a milk cooler to preserve value and reduce losses. Through the cooperative, farmers also accessed seminars and partnerships that introduced new skills and better farming practices.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Celebrating Partners In Development | Bukanga Dairy Farmers Cooperative Society\" width=\"1410\" height=\"793\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vqE0uKurQQU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>One farmer in Isingiro who once struggled with water now has a permanent dam on his land; not because he stood alone, but because he stood with others.<\/p>\n<p>That is the power of cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Families earn more. Young people find employment. Communities stabilise. Local economies grow. When people come together with a shared vision, and access the right financing, transformation follows. If you are ready to grow your enterprise through collective strength, the opportunity to access development financing is here.<\/p>\n<p>We welcome enterprises and SMEs to explore how our patient and affordable capital can support their growth journey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2009, Bukanga Dairy Cooperative began with 30 farmers who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/udbl.co.ug\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/udbl.co.ug\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/udbl.co.ug\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udbl.co.ug\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udbl.co.ug\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4638"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/udbl.co.ug\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4672,"href":"https:\/\/udbl.co.ug\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions\/4672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udbl.co.ug\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/udbl.co.ug\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udbl.co.ug\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/udbl.co.ug\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}