Museveni roots for 4-acre farming approach to boost household incomes
OMORO– President Museveni is rooting for small-scale commercial farming approach in order to boost household incomes in northern Uganda.
This comes at a time when the Acholi Sub-region, according to a survey by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics [UBOS], is the poorest in the country, despite boasting arguably of the most fertile land in the country.
While campaigning for Andrew Ojok Oulanyah, the National Resistance Movement Candidate for the Omoro County Parliamentary by-election, Museveni said the government is currently looking to boost household incomes using the 4-acre farming approach where a farmer can get at least Shs 100 million per year.
“Our mathematics of the 4-acre module, 1 acre for coffee, fruits (citrus and mangoes, pineapples, pasture for feeding the livestock and 4th acre for the food crop growing. In the backyard, one would put piggery, chicken for eggs, and fish farming for those around swamps,” Museveni explained.
According to Museveni, this approach will directly be assisted under the Parish Development Module under which each parish in the country will be getting a total of 100 million every financial year.
“We have had several interventions like NAADs, Operation Wealth Creation. But now we are giving money directly to your SACCOs to fund your various projects. This is aimed at improving household income in your homes,” the president noted.
He also noted that the government will support Andrew Ojok, if elected to replace his father and see that a few farmers are taken to Fort Portal for benchmarking to gain more modernized farming skills focusing on the various high income generating enterprises.
“We shall help Ojok to take some few people to Fort Portal to see how people are getting 250m in small pieces of acre in farming,” he said.
In recent interviews, locals in the district demanded the local leaders make deliberate efforts to establish cooperative societies for soybean farmers.
Catherine Lamwaka, the Omoro County Woman MP, appealed to Museveni to help direct the government to invest in improving the value chain in soybean production. In his response, Museveni said that the government would get investors to invest in the soybean value chain.
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