Modular downstream-integrated sawmill model for Uganda
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This brief is a summary of a study aimed at identifying and justifying appropriate types of sawmills and machinery for Uganda, providing sawmill machinery specifications, and designing a sawmill layout. The study was conducted based on the fact that Uganda has implemented various interventions to support commercial forestry, including the current phase of the European Union-funded Sawlog Production Grant Scheme (SPGS) which started in 2004.
Some of these forest plantations are ready for harvesting. Phase III of the SPGS Project, which is implemented by FAO in Uganda, has supported private sector tree planting in Uganda, attracting substantial investment in timber plantations by small, medium, and largescale investors. Today, about 80 000 hectares of planted forests have been established.
FAO, therefore, seeks to incorporate other components of the forestry value chain, in particular downstream processing and efficient utilisation of timber emerging from plantations established under phases I and II of the project.
From the study, a modular vertically integrated permanent sawmill design was found to be appropriate for Uganda. As opposed to a fully-fledged sawmilling facility, the modular sawmill enables processing step at a time and then adding processing lines (with different functions) to one central sawmill. Adding value to timber products will increase the quality of timber products and ultimately, incomes of tree farmers.