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Technical support services (TSS) for oil palm plantation establishment in the new hubs have been provided initially through the hub start-up team. However, following establishment of the plantations, the start-up team will hand over to a dedicated TSS team, who will provide the oil palm growers with the necessary production services. The idea will be to keep the TSS light in terms of team members and outsource service provision to the extent possible; and from the start, mechanisms will be put in place for the eventual full cost recovery for the services delivered to the growers. Robust administrative and IT systems will be established to facilitate this process and ensure timely payments for their FFBs. In Kalangala, where KOPGT has provided technical services to the oil palm growers, the challenge is to assist it to limit its service delivery costs – a process that has already started. The move from KOPGT to a Kalangala Hub TSS entity will be informed by a review of KOPGT, to be conducted prior to NOPP start-up, and the drawing up of an action plan for KOPGT’s institutional transformation.
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On Buvuma Island, Bidco will establish a nucleus estate for oil palm production of approximately 5,000 ha, plus the estate road network. In all the new hubs, the private sector partner will also finance the establishment of a nursery, to supply the smallholder growers with oil palm seedlings; as well as a CPO mill to process the FFBs supplied by the growers. The mill will be established once 3,000 ha of smallholder oil palm have been planted; the capacity can expand as the area under cultivation further increases.
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Atanansi Mbiro (Ssalongo) a resident of Bukula Village in Nairambi Sub County in the Buvuma Island district recalls trying to control alcohol and failing until he chose to completely give up drinking.
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Every day Evon Nanteza, a resident at Twojwe Village in Nairambi Sub County wakes up early in the morning to water her crops, a routine she as well undertakes in the evening.
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Despite staying in the most developed part of the islands of Buvuma, Robert Mbagulire Wajja, 40, a resident of Kitamiro village, the central business area of the entire district has spent most part of his life without a pit latrine.
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