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What Museveni said in State of the Nation Address 2022

KAMPALA– Yesterday President Yoweri Museveni gave his State of the Nation Address [SONA] 2022 where he explained various issues in the Ugandcan economy; including talking about Emyooga SACCOs, the Parish Development Model [PDM] Uganda’s push for Middle-income status, the discovery of more gold deposits.

Museveni said the PDM’s result would be to tap the production capacity of all the seven million houses in agriculture, relying on the seveni high-value commodities such as  coffee,   fruits,   dairy products, poultry, pigs, fish-farming, and food growing for those of  4  acres and less.

“The ones with land that is more than  4  acres,  can,  in addition,  grow sugar-cane, cotton, maize, tobacco, tea, cassava, bananas, ranching, etc., because the country needs these products for industry, food or as inputs into the intensive agriculture,” he said.

Museveni said activities of intensive agriculture, such as poultry, piggery, fish-farming, dairy farming  of  the  zero-grazing  type,  provide market for manufacturers of  animal  feeds, fish-meals, among others, whose inputs he said can be provided by extensive agriculture.

He said in the coming financial years, his government will further boost irrigation.  “We are going to  intensify  the  modest  efforts  we  have  already  started on, in  connection  with  irrigation.    With irrigation,  we have worked with the private sector to produce solar-powered water pumps that the rich farmers can buy and engage in mini-irrigation, farm by farm,” he said.

Once the solar-powered irrigation pumps are on the market,   Museveni said, the government will buy them for some of the co-operatives or farming villages, where one pump can be shared by a number of small farmers.

“We shall continue also developing the mega-irrigation schemes of the  Mobuku type.   Currently, 150 solar-powered water pumps have been imported.    By the end of next year, 687 solar-powered water pumps will have been imported.

He said the private sector is building a factory  for producing solar-powered water pumps and panels.  “The factory will be ready by the end of the year and it will produce 160,000 pumps per year.  At the same time, we are  continuing  to  repair  and  expand  the  old  irrigation schemes  and  also  build  new  ones.”

As of now, Museveni said, the following irrigation schemes are ready: Wadelai (Pakwach);   Mubuku   (Kasese);   Ngenge   (Kween);   Doho (Butaleja); Rwengaaju (Kabarole); Agoro (Kitgum); Olweny (Lira); and Tochi (Oyam).  “Acomoi in Bukedea and Ataari in the district  of Bulambuli and  Lopei  in  the  district  of Moroto are being worked on.”

The Ugandan Head of State also warned Ugandans about the resurgence of Covid-19 cases, urging the public to observe Standard Operating Procedures [SOPs], including wearing masks, washing hands using soap, sanitizing, and keeping social distance.

Click below to read Museveni’s full speech.

Museveni’s State of the Nation Address 2022

 

https://thecooperator.news/museveni-assures-people-of-livestock-compensation/

 

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