A new day for IABM Cooperative

Founded in 2007, with 40 hectares, by 618 membership, by means of 60 US$ share per member and production of 30 tons of maize equivalent to 60 US$ per season. Now if you assess what was changed at IABM Cooperative through extensions services gainedis like a miracle.

In the beginning of 2012 a project called improving productivity and market access implementing by RWARRI and funded by AGRA emerge in Muhanga District to support smallholders farmers at that time IABM Cooperatives was bit organized in term of institution development the need was on how they can increase production and quality, linkage to financial institutions,connection to high potential market and working with probable partners.  

By conducting training of trainers and training reserved to Cooperativeleaders in different themes this enabled Cooperative to increase maize production from 1.5tons/ha to 4tons/ha, they are dealing with financial institutions where they received a loan from bank to buy truck which is using to transport the produce to the market, a micro miller processing will soon implanted in partnership with Canadian Cooperative Association (CCA)in the course of the Cooperative capacity assessed by donor.

Generally life conditions of members were changed where every member is capable to pay his mutually health insurance, pay school fees for their childrenin addition to that all members have opened account in financial institutions and many were created others income generating activities.

Now the IABM Cooperative is characterized by 216 consolidated lands, 755 memberships where 499 are female the share per member is 390 US$ and last season they got a maize production of 900Tonsequivalent to 390 697US$.