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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said the high number of people depending on agriculture is a sign that Ugandans are still backward.
Uganda is a highly agricultural country and about 70 percent of the country’s population is employed in the agricultural sector.
But while addressing the press at Margherita Hotel in Kasese town shortly after his meeting with political leaders at Nyakasanga grounds last night, Museveni said the huge numbers of people involved in agriculture was not only a sign of underdevelopment but also backwardness.
Museveni cited United States of America and the United Kingdom where he said only two percent of the population is involved in agriculture yet that smaller percentage is in position to support the countries with all the food.
The president said it was high time Ugandans embraced forming family companies where members only own shares. He argued that in this case even the pieces of land and or farms would be managed by one person on behalf of the rest.
This he said will enable the rest of the family members to get time to get involved in other income generating sectors like Information and Communications Technology, Tourism and transport.
Museveni also cautioned Ugandans against land fragmentation explaining that there is need for families to stay in the same enclosure so that the rest of the land can be used for production.
He re-echoed his four-acre land use model which he said there is need to have an acre of land for food crops, another for coffee, another for fruits while the remaining piece of land should be used for livestock farming or pasture.
Museveni who discouraged the people of Kasese against the plantation of cotton and maize on small scale, said the four-acre land use model will be a sure way of acquiring wealth.
Kasese Municipality Mayor Godfrey Kabbyanga said the president’s message of operation wealth creation is timely since the people need to be helped to get out of poverty.
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Let me just ask for the meaning of symbols on the court of arm of Uganda is cotton,lakes and rivers mean to the locals. I can still recall way back in 2003 when I was in P.3, that the cotton as a symbol on the court of arm shows Uganda is an agricultural country & the rivers and also the lakes represents the beautiful waters of Uganda that enhance fishing as an economic activity and they also promote tourism earning revenue to the country.
Please and please I urge that agriculture should Rather be encouraged and promoted or otherwise we haven’t seen other benefits of it that’s good climatic conditions like rain,fresh air & cool and ample environment provided by the plants, fruit trees provides precious seeds that we enjoy to support our body requirements, some trees like eucalyptus provides us with tea leaves while other act as herbs, even protection of the ground from erosion and I tell you the list is endless, but it’s good to develop electronically but we should never the less forget about our surrounding.
As an example I can give you a condition in the rise of high temperatures leading to forest fires in countries like France,Germany and people(the whites) spending much of their in swimming pools just because of harsh weather conditions.
IT will never change such a situation though it has its own advantages over agriculture.
that’s not bad for the president to say but the way he puts it only need fast understanding people to change,ie value addition.