Kulika Training Centre (KTC)

Opened in April 2007, the Kulika Centre is a practical and sustainable representation of Kulika’s approach to Community Development. It has been developed as a self-financing unit which grows and sells organically produced marketable crops. It aims at empowering farmers and their communities to use their land more effectively and sustainably through adopting sustainable organic agriculture. The establishment of Kulika Training Centre was a result of success built from the Ecological Organic Agriculture training activities implemented for a period of 10 years in different parts of Uganda, Rwanda and Ethopia. During that period, Kulika implemented a rolling on approach which meant that premises had to be hired from stakeholders including government agricultural institutes to train farmers drawn from a 35 kilometer radius.

This meant that Kulika’s demonstration gardens were left an attended to whenever the centre rolled on signifying a waste of resources, energy and knowledge. It limited the level of implementation for example research potential and capability to consolidate learning. Kulika was also overwhelmed with the number of farmers who would wish to undertake short courses in agriculture.