The marketing group has a chairperson Mr. Serubombwe Musa; and it is located in Lwampanga sub county, Zengebe parish and Zengebe village. The group comprises 30 members.
The sources of water in the area are open wells and the Lake Kyoga. However the water from the wells is dirty and unreliable so the main source of water is Lake Kyoga.
The group grows a number of crops some of which are maize, cassava, sweet potato, millet, groundnuts however only maize, cassava and groundnuts are grown in excess. Seasonally, watermelon, carrots, tomatoes, eggplants and cabbage may be in plenty. Also the fact that the people are near a lake means there is a continuous supply of fish.
The marketing group is also located near a mill however the owner of the mill only comes once in a while.
The people carry out minimal processing of the surplus produce including sun drying of potatoes (kasedde), cassava, maize as well as ground nuts.
The group produces flours from maize and cassava. The mill used however produces a crude product.
When asked for their expectations, members had a number of ideas but generally wanted to learn new methods of production of food.
The biggest challenge that the group faces is the marketing of the produce. A basin of tomatoes can go for 5000/=, a polythene bag of carrots for 2000/= only, a kilogram of kasedde for 2000/= and some times as low as 1000/=. Ground nuts, maize and cassava have no market at all. People from town may purchase these but at very low prices.
From the available raw materials and resources, we thought that some of the possible products could be; peanut, bread, doughnuts, cookies, tomato jam, sweet potato crisps, water melon juice, water melon wine, fish balls, smoked fish, porridge flour (maize, mukene, millet)
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