Nathan Mutungi, the Chairperson Nyakihanga Fruits and Vegetable Growers Cooperative Society, says they decided to suspend the operations of the factory due to numerous challenges that require government intervention.
Scientists at Makerere University say crude waragi distilled in almost every part of the country could serve as a cheaper, sustainable clean cooking energy if home brewers were given better technologies of producing it.
From humble beginnings inside her kitchen in 2010, Prudence Ukkonika Busingye tells URN what inspired her to venture into wine making. Bella Wine, the business that was started with as little as one hundred Uganda thousand shillings producing five litres of wine, now distributes over fifty thousand litres per year from a factory located in Namugongo, outside Kampala.