The group is also located in Lwampanga subcounty, in Kisalizi parish in Kigingo village.
The group has a chairperson Margaret Ssali and it comprises 60 members.
The group has two sources of water; some people get water from wells and others from the Lake Kyoga. The group is also located near a mill.
A number of crops are grown including maize, beans, groundnuts, cassava, sweet potatoes, millet, nakati, tomatoes. The crops grown in excess include cassava, maize, potatoes, millet, ground nuts and tomatoes.
Maize, ground nuts cassava, millet and sweet potatoes are minimally processed through sun drying.
The maize that is milled is used for food only.
The biggest challenge for this group is the marketing of their produce and the low pricess offered for their produce.
A sack of dried cassava can be as low as 700/=. A kilo gram of maize can be as low as 250/=. The prices of most of the produce vary with availability which in turn varies as the seasons vary.
The possible products from the available raw materials and resources include; peanut, biscuits, cookies, bread, porridge flour, sweet potato crisps, tomato jam, tomato juice.
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