Uganda, March 22 -- Mengya Integrated Farmers Cooperative Society in Kween District has been voted the most innovative cooperative society in the country.

This was at the 360 Degrees Farmers' Awards organised by the Uhuru Institute.

Speaking at the awards ceremony in Kampala on Wednesday, Mr Daniel Bukenya, the chief judge at the awards, said Mengya Integrated Farmers' Cooperative Society was successful because they presented a compelling innovation of how they are turning their rugged terrain, which is full of rivers and waterfalls, into an opportunity to beat the drought.

The farmers divert water from the rivers and waterfalls to their gardens to irrigate crops.

"This is a compelling innovation in motion. It did not have to wait for...