Museveni opens 700m plant lab in Buloba
Oct 22, 2008
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has opened a laboratory that produces plant tissue. The technology involves the production of multiple plants from a single plant in the absence of seeds or pollinators to produce seeds.
By David Muwanga
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has opened a laboratory that produces plant tissue. The technology involves the production of multiple plants from a single plant in the absence of seeds or pollinators to produce seeds.
The sh700m laboratory, run by Agro Genetic Technologies in Buloba, produces tissue for banana, coffee, tea, cassava, yams, ornamentals and trees.
Museveni said the Government was improving human resource development.
“In 1986, we started with improving revenue collection and as it improved, we started on immunisation and universal primary education,†he said after opening the laboratory on Tuesday.
“We did this because if you educate people, they will find themselves what to do and the more we educate our people, the more the country develops as they assist the Government where it can be effective.â€
The President hailed Erastus Nsubuga, the proprietor of the company, for the initiative. “This man got his education, came back to his village and applied his knowledge. These are the people I like, even the late Dr. Kibirige Ssebunya, who introduced Clonal coffee. These are people who must be saluted,†he said.
Nsubuga said agricultural technology was popular in countries like India, Israel, Taiwan, which he said were making billions of dollars annually on exporting plant materials to Europe and Latin America.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has opened a laboratory that produces plant tissue. The technology involves the production of multiple plants from a single plant in the absence of seeds or pollinators to produce seeds.
The sh700m laboratory, run by Agro Genetic Technologies in Buloba, produces tissue for banana, coffee, tea, cassava, yams, ornamentals and trees.
Museveni said the Government was improving human resource development.
“In 1986, we started with improving revenue collection and as it improved, we started on immunisation and universal primary education,†he said after opening the laboratory on Tuesday.
“We did this because if you educate people, they will find themselves what to do and the more we educate our people, the more the country develops as they assist the Government where it can be effective.â€
The President hailed Erastus Nsubuga, the proprietor of the company, for the initiative. “This man got his education, came back to his village and applied his knowledge. These are the people I like, even the late Dr. Kibirige Ssebunya, who introduced Clonal coffee. These are people who must be saluted,†he said.
Nsubuga said agricultural technology was popular in countries like India, Israel, Taiwan, which he said were making billions of dollars annually on exporting plant materials to Europe and Latin America.