{"id":29833,"date":"2023-09-29T13:38:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T12:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/?p=29833"},"modified":"2023-10-18T09:11:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T08:11:20","slug":"mushroom-businesses-in-lake-bunyonyi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/ie\/mushroom-businesses-in-lake-bunyonyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mushroom-ing Business at Uganda’s Lake Bunyonyi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Susan Tumwesi is amongst hundreds of local landowners who have created innovative new businesses along the shores of Uganda’s picturesque Lake Bunyonyi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Supported by ‘Striking A Balance: Developing a Green Economy Around Lake Bunyonyi’, a Self Help Africa project that seeks to find a balance between the economic needs of local people, and the environmental needs of protecting the lake and its hinterlands, Susan is one of 36 local women to have started mushroom growing to earn a living.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a venture that has allowed her to move away from crop cultivation on the fragile slopes that surround the lake, and instead produce mushrooms in an outhouse that she has built adjacent to her family’s home, close to the lakeshore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I have 40 bags [of mushrooms]. After a month of harvesting I made Ushs. 150,000 [around \u20ac\u200e 40]. I will  harvest  for 3 months, and expect to make around Ushs. 500,000 (\u20ac\u200e 130]\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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