Leading crops
Rice, Cassava, maize, finger millet sweet potatoes, coffee, sorghum, peas, bananas.

Main cash crops
Rice that is grown on a large scale at Kibimba Rice Scheme by Tilda Uganda Limited.

Fisheries
Lake Fisheries Activities
The District currently produces approximately 40 tones of fish daily from it’s portion of Lake Victoria. Fish factories for export buy 75% of which. 20% is consumed locally and 5% is lost in the process of production.

There are 74 landing sites along the shores of Lake Victoria portion of Bugiri District; only one of it (Lugala) is gazetted.

Two commercial fish buying centers have been established at Wakawaka and Busiro Landing sites.

Government programs
PMA

NARO/FAO Cassava multiplication program

SIDA

Save the Children U.K

Bugiri Commercial Farmers‘ Association

Sasakawa Global 2000 (SG 2000)

Farming in Tsetse Control Areas (FITCA) Project

Lake Victoria Environmental Management Project (LVEMP)