KAMPALA, August 22, 2024 – President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni yesterday held discussions with the African Union Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy, and Sustainable Environment, Ambassador Josefa Sacko.
Ambassador Josefa Sacko was accompanied to State House Entebbe by the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries, Frank Tumwebaze, to discuss preparations for hosting the forthcoming Extraordinary Agricultural Summit of Heads of State and Government in Kampala in January, 2025.
Museveni, who welcomed Ambassador Sacko to Uganda, expressed his profound gratitude for the opportunity to host the summit.
“That is music to my ears, and I am very happy to host this summit. The potential for agriculture is huge in Africa. Uganda is really good to peg our agricultural perceptions around what we have saved, because we preserved the indigenous agriculture: cows, goats, bananas, cassava, fish, etc. Our job was to modernise and commercialise our agriculture,” Museveni said.
“When you hear that people in Africa don’t have food, it’s because of colonialism and the dislocation of people from their heritage. They [Africans] start despising themselves and worshipping everything foreign. For agriculture, you are definitely at home. Uganda is the place, we have the crops of the forest, tropical savanna, and temperate crops,” the President added.
The previous AU agricultural summit was held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in 2014. The summit shaped the action plan around the Malabo Declaration, which emphasised the prioritisation of accelerated agricultural growth and transformation for shared prosperity and improved livelihoods.
The meeting in Entebbe was also attended by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries, Maj. Gen. David Kasura Kyomukama, among others.
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