Mbarara day 1

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Sunday night we arrived in mbarara which is in western Uganda. We went to a pineapple plantation that is supported and consulted by a government agency.  The producer if the pineapples actually does his own added value by making his pineapples into pineapple wine! (for all my frisbee players out there it is sadly not a $1.50 all the time) in fact it is 10,000 shillings for a bottle when an ordinary pineapple would be sold at 1,000. He makes much more for each pinapple when making the wine.  He also has great technique for utilizing his land. While he is growing pineapples he plants apples or mangos over it so that by the time the pineapples are dint growing the apple trees will be ready to produce. Very very interesting. 
We also visited a dairy production company.  It was a pretty ordinary factory.  But, what I found interesting was how they got their milk.  They have farmers from around the area join together and sell their milk as a group, and then the milk company processes it.  But in order to sell the milk to the company you must be a member if the group.  The company also goes around to the farmers and educates then on how to produce the best quality milk.  All in all a very cool day.