Namilyango College bitter as Swine Fever wipes out piggery farm
Drake Nyamugabwa
A strategic investment worth Millions of shillings has reportedly been lost in a swine fever attack incident where the entire Namilyango college piggery project was destroyed.
The incident was contained in the official college headmaster’s state of the college report 2023 which indicated that over 100 well fed giant size pigs on the vast college farm were summarily wiped out during a sudden outbreak of swine fever attack on the farm.
"We had invested heavily in the piggery unit of the farm with high expectations of reaping big on sales but an abrupt swine fever attack instantly wiped out the entire 100 piggery unit’ lamented Constantine Mpuuga Sajjabbi the college Headmaster.
He however reassured the college fraternity how they were working with AVSI an Italian NGO in attempting to modernize the college farm which currently supplies fresh vegetables, cassava, sweet potatoes and milk which is consumed by both students and staff on a daily basis.
‘We are working in partnership with AVSI to ensure that our plans of rejuvenating the farm and reequipping it with new stocks and modern farm equipment is realized this year as well as working on the new proposed environmental project which targets at helping the college to move away from using firewood for cooking to new fuel alternatives’ he pointed out.
The college reportedly uses the farm for both farm demonstration activities where agriculture student’s practice modern farming practices as well as serving the produce like fresh vegetables and milk to the entire school community for a balanced diet.
