Anchor unit
CASE IH 110 JX
110 HPPrimary tillage
Anchor unit at the Lakang hub. Pairs with disc plough and mounted harrow.
— Mechanization · Lakang Hub
A tractor service centre owned by the SACCO.
Location
Lakang, Amuru
Land
10 acres
Pipeline
5,900+ acres
Coverage
4 sub-regions
Then
½ acre / day
Now
4–6 acres / day
— From oxen to tractors
A productivity gap of years, closed in a single season.
One ox-drawn plough opens roughly half an acre a day. A NUTOFA-rostered tractor opens four to six acres in the same time at member rates.
That is the productivity difference that lets a small farm grow a real cash crop, a teenager finish school, and a household stop selling its harvest at the gate to the first middleman with a Hilux.
— The fleet in numbers
Mechanization in members' hands.
121
Member tractors
4
Combine harvesters
2
Excavators
1
Backhoe digger
1
Chain loader
Excavators, the backhoe and the chain loader handle land clearance. The cooperative also coordinates 167 farmer groups and 17 primary cooperatives across the four sub-regions.
— Newest addition · June 2026
Three Kubota tractors and a full implement set.
In June 2026 the cooperative received three Kubota diesel tractors (two M9540, one M7040) and a matched set of implements from the Microfinance Support Centre, under Government of Uganda mechanization support.
Read the handover story— Fleet
What the cooperative runs.
Mixed-brand fleet built around primary tillage, secondary tillage, harvest support and field spraying.
Massey Ferguson 5500D
85 HPField & contract work
Sonalika DI-50
50 HPSecondary tillage
Foton 824
82 HPGeneral-purpose tillage
MF 570 Combine
n/aHarvest
— Implements
Implements travel with the tractor.
Members don't pay for two trips. Every tractor on roster goes out with the right implement bundle for the booked job.
Disc ploughs
3- and 4-disc, mounted, used for primary tillage on heavy soils.
Disc harrows
Secondary tillage; pulverises clods after primary ploughing.
Ridgers
Forms planting ridges for groundnut, sesame, cassava.
Planters
Four-row pneumatic planters for maize, soya, sesame.
Threshers / drying floors
Post-harvest handling at the hub. No more weather-priced sales.
Trailers / loaders
Internal logistics, hub-to-field and harvest-to-market.
— Hire a tractor
Book through the centre.
Four headline rates below. Combine harvesting and threshing/drying are quoted on enquiry. Group bookings of 20+ acres get an extra 10 % off the member rate.
Primary ploughing
UGX 90,000
/ acre · member
Public UGX 120,000
Secondary harrowing
UGX 70,000
/ acre · member
Public UGX 95,000
Ridging
UGX 60,000
/ acre · member
Public UGX 80,000
Planting (4-row)
UGX 65,000
/ acre · member
Public UGX 90,000
Rates apply to standard soils. Fuel is included. Bookings via the secretariat: +256 772 793 198.
— 2024 to 2028 plan
Five years of hub.
- 242024Lakang plan adopted
Hub plan ratified at AGM. 10 acres donated by partners. Service pipeline targeted at 5,900 acres.
- 252025Pilot service block
First commercial off-take contracts signed. Operator certification cohort launches.
- 262026Full season service
AGM 2026 approves multi-year service plan. Dividend declared on member savings.
- 272027Hub expansion
Threshing and drying floors operational. Equipment sales partnership scaled.
- 282028Member growth target
5,000 paid-up members, 200+ farmer groups, full self-financing of fleet maintenance.
— Buy a tractor
Brokered through vetted dealers.
We work with a small set of dealer partners on the new and second-hand tractor markets. Paid-up members get structured asset finance with a 20 % down payment and a harvest-linked repayment schedule.
Start a purchase enquiry
— Operator network
Trained, rostered, fairly paid.
Operators on the SACCO roster are dispatched against member bookings, paid by the cooperative on a per-acre basis, and re-certified on a defined refresher cycle. Apprentices welcome.
Join the operator roster— Talk to us