B ella Wine is a privately owned business whose principal activities are the production,

marketing and distribution of Bella Wines and Juices. Bella wine is a major products are Bella Wines and Bella Juices both concentrates and ready-to-drink. Our Wines and juices are made from organically grown fruits. We are proud to provide the best quality organic wines and juices in Uganda.

Company History K. Roma Limited originally started

at home in 2002 buying and selling locally made wine. In 2006, K. Roma Limited started making its own

wine, Bella Sweet Red wine from passion fruits supplied by farmers belonging to Namuwongo where it started making Bella Golden wine, a white wine made from pineapple juice contrite. Wine production has since greatly increased from 1,0001 in 2006 to 60,0001 in 2009. K. Roma Limited has since found its new home in Najera, approximately 14km from Kampala City Centre.

SUCCESS OF K-ROMA LTD COMPANY

K-Roma ltd was certified by the Uganda National Bureau of Statistics (UNBS) and registered as the first company producing organic fruit products. The fruits are supplied by the Organic farmers supported by the National Organic Agricultural Movement of Uganda (NOGAMU).

Mission Statement - To produce and market high quality

wines and natural fruit concentrates and RTDs, while creating self employment to the company promoters and other people in Uganda.

- To generate income for the expansion of the company in order to become the leader in production of wines and natural fruit concentrates and RTDs using organically produced and fruits in Uganda.

- To exploit the fruit and vegetable raw material resources grown in Uganda as a way of adding value to Uganda’s agricultural produce as well as offer markets to local producers

Vision To become the model leading

medium-scale enterprise in the production and supply of high quality wines and natural fruit concentrates that are free from chemicals and other contaminants in Uganda.

The company was registered with a capital investment of one million shillings and is to-date estimated at a worth of five hundred million shillings. It started with only three employees but to-date employs over twenty workers. At start, there was only one supplier and wine was sold in jerricans and plastic bottles; now there are over four suppliers and wine is sold in glass bottles. The customers used to consist of mainly the relatives, family friends and colleagues at work; today the distribution chain has grown to most supermarkets in Kampala, Mukono, Entebbe, Mbale, Mbarara, Masaka and upcountry.

Bella wine is purely organic and the finest wine from uganda the Pearl

of Africa. Each drop of bella wine is masterfully crafted with artisanal devotion and in every bottle will ignite secret deep passion because we have taken time and thought making it and above all using sustainable practices.

The better the grapes the better the taste of our wine” the growers say we also make wine from all kinds of exotic fruits and thus with every glass of Bella Wine you can taste the fruit of their success. Just drink bella wine today,you’ll surely discover the secret.

CELEBRATING OUR 10 YEARS ANNIVERSARY

Karamoja region is fundamentally a rangeland, characterised by prolonged

dry spells and erratic rainfall pattern. The region is generally characterized by poor rainfall distribution and reliability manifested through prolonged dry spells and flash floods. The magnitude, frequency and severity of these hazards have increased over the past decades seriously eroding the productive assets and traditional coping capacities that support livelihoods.

As a result, there has been low livestock productivity. The effect of prolonged dry spells on livestock productivity has often been aggravated by presence of trans-boundary animal diseases such as Contagious Bovine Pleuro Pneumonia (CBPP), Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR); Contagious Caprine Pleuro Pneumonia (CCPP) Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) and Tick Borne Disease like Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis and East Cost Fever. Lately, the prevalence of zoonotic diseases including Brucellosis and Rabies is also increasing.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in collaboration with the Government of Uganda has been supporting communities in Karamoja to build resilience over the past ten years through a holistic livelihood programme focusing on livestock production, crop production and land and water management within a Disaster Risk Management (DRM) framework.

FAO, under its mandate, has spearheaded response efforts in Karamoja, for control of Transboundary Animal diseases such Rinderpest (the cattle plague) whose global eradication was declared by FAO in 2011.

In 2007, raging outbreak of PPR (goat plague, similar to rinderpest) which was reported to have decimated over half a million goats and sheep in Karamoja, was contained with FAO’s support to the government of Uganda in form of cold chain logistics and vaccine, based on good collaboration with the veterinary services from the Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) and the district local governments, supported by Community Animal Health Workers (CAHWs), conducted mass vaccination of most small ruminants in the region, approximately 2.4 million goats and sheep were covered. To this end, no serious outbreaks have been reported since. However, due to several risk factors, the disease can easily strike again if adequate control measures, especially vaccination, are not put in place.

Current action by FAO UgandaWith funding from the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom (DFID), FAO has kick-started another vaccination programme that seeks to vaccinate of approximately 280,000 heads of cattle against Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD), 500,000 heads of Cattle against Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia (CBPP or the cattle lung disease), 400,000 goats against Contagious Caprine Pleuropneumonia (CCPP) and one million goats and sheep against combined PPR and Sheep –Goat Pox.The aim is to strategically control Transboundary Animal Diseases in Karamoja. Vaccination against the target animal diseases is expected to tremendously reduce the impact of animal diseases on pastoral livelihoods and strengthen resilience.

Over 3 million pastoralists will benefit from this initiative. The districts have been equipped with various cold chain materials including freezers, fridges, ice boxes and ice packs in preparation for the mass exercise. As a measure to ensure adequate alert, FAO has also supported the National Animal Disease Diagnostic and Epidemiology Centre (NADDEC) of MAAIF to conduct thorough disease surveillance through collection of blood and other samples from animals for detecting presence of diseases. In addition, FAO with funding from DFID, is shipping in a total of 40 quality fridges for vaccine storage.

In relation to other disease challenges, Tick infestation (Lomadang) and Tick borne diseases as well as gastro intestinal worms (Ngikuur) still remain a very big constraint to livestock health and productivity. In Karamoja, FAO is calling upon government to challenge stockowners to control ticks and worm infestation which jointly, for sure, due to both morbidities and mortalities as well as hidden costs, cause the biggest losses to the livestock economy.

To support early detection, preparedness and early response, FAO has already trained a total of 183 staff from all the Karamoja district and NADDEC in recognition of FMD, as well as Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS), to build district capacity in livestock contingency planning.

FAO has also actively supported regional strategy, networking and and building a strong joint alliance between Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan towards control of Transboundary Animal Diseases (TADS), across their common borders.

FAO is soon rolling out in Karamoja Event Mobile Application called EMPRES, using smart phones for real time (instant) disease reporting to the Commissioner of Animal Health at MAAIF. This is envisaged to address the delays by paper based conventional reporting and improve timely response to disease outbreaks.

FAO in collaboration with government of Uganda will officially launch the three months strategic vaccination exercise in Karamoja on Monday 7th September, 2015. The launch will be officiated by the Minister for Karamoja Affairs, Hon. Janet K Museveni, in the company of the Minister of State for Animal Industry, Hon. Lt. Col. Bright Rwamirama and, FAO Country Representative in Uganda , Mr Alhaji Jallow, Head of DFID mission in Uganda and other Senior Officials from the department of Veterinary Services of the Republic of Uganda

Come one, come all as we vaccinate for resilience.

Launching of strategic livestock vaccinations in support of improved liveliho ods and resilience in Karamoja

Veterinarians and officers from District local government, NGOs and National Animal Disease Diagnostic and epidemiology centre (NADEC) after undergoing a week long Livestock Emergency Guidelines and Standards (LEGS) training.

Animal Commuity Health Workers taking blood sample from cattle for FMD diagnosis

Veterinary officer vaccinating a goat

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