Based in Kayanza, the Federation of Cooperatives of Kayanza “UMUGWIZA” was created in 2019 and brings together 836 cooperatives in this province.
Its headquarters are located at Kirema, in the city of Kayanza.
1. Agriculture:
2. Breeding:
3. Manufacture of feed concentrates for all types of livestock
4. A community health mutual
5. Microfinance
6. A community radio
7. A center for geriatrics and support for the vulnerable.
8. Civic, entrepreneurship and environmental education;
9. Life insurance
10. Profitable social cohesion for all cooperatives and for all members.
During its 3 years of existence, the federation already has a large number of achievements:
– 262 Sangwe hill cooperatives,
– 280 hillside youth cooperatives
– 280 hillside women’s cooperatives.
– At six months of existence, the federation has
currently :
-Two functional breeding sites; one has
KUMAHORO and the other in KINGA (Cows, Pigs)
and a modern chicken rearing site;
– Another breeding site in MUHANGA in progress
of implantation which will be intended for the breeding
beef cows (meat breeds)
– Three vegetable farm sites,
– In Kumahoro, 20ha of Banna Grass and 19ha
potatoes.
– In Mungote, 13 ha of potatoes.
-In Muniha, 25 ha of coffee trees including 80
141 coffee trees.
– Establishment of a pig breeding center
– Establishment of a health mutuality
– Establishment of an agro-food processing complex
– Establishment of a microfinance
Oriented towards the enhancement of its members and its partners, FU’s vision is to make the province of Kayanza, the industrial region par excellence with processing and export in the foreground but above all the green breadbasket of Burundi as national reference in the agro-pastoral sector but also as a provider of sustainable solutions for all agri-food sectors.
Always focused on the needs of its members and partners, the FU offers services ranging from agriculture and livestock, including civic and environmental values, to the establishment of modern processing and production infrastructures. This involves, among other things, moving members of cooperatives from subsistence agriculture to market and export agriculture with modern farming techniques including mechanized agriculture and intensive industrial livestock farming that meet the needs of sustainable development.
