Uganda To Export Beef To Middle East Markets
Oct 03, 2003
UGANDA is scheduled to export meat and meat products to the Middle East when the planning process for acquiring land for the investors is completed.
By David Muwanga
UGANDA is scheduled to export meat and meat products to the Middle East when the planning process for acquiring land for the investors is completed.
The Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) and the department of physical planning of the lands ministry, have completed the mapping out the 137 hactares structural plan for the land located at Nalumunye in Wakiso district where the factory located.
The development plan for the Nalumunye Industrial Park will have residential, institutional, infrastructural development and environmental protectionsection.
UIA investment executive, Pamela Ayebare, said this week, the planning process to end in December, would culminate into a $20m abattoir and a cattle-holding investment.
Ayebare said the landcomprises Plots 70 and 86 on Block 347 in Nalumunya Industrial Park.
She said Plot70 had been allocated to the Iran-Uganda Establishments Limited.
“According to our records, the Iran-Uganda Establishments Limited is injecting $20m. They are to slaughter 500 animals per day (cows, goats and sheep). The meat is to be exported to the Middle East,†Ayebare told Wakiso district councillors on Wednesday at a consultative meeting held at the district headquarters.
She said the investors were already here, awaiting to acquire land.
“We are in the last phases of consultations. We request you to make contributions towards the structural plan that has been drawn up by UIA and the physical planning department in the next one month after which adjustments will be made so that the process ends in December,†she said.
UIA legal officer, Catherine Nabirye, said the affected residents shall be compensated.
“Nobody should be worried. We shall consider case by case of the affected people. Each will be compensated according to his or her wish. Either to be re-located or be paid cash and shift to other areas,†Nabirye told the enthusiastic councillors who listened attentively throughout the half- day meeting.
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UGANDA is scheduled to export meat and meat products to the Middle East when the planning process for acquiring land for the investors is completed.
The Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) and the department of physical planning of the lands ministry, have completed the mapping out the 137 hactares structural plan for the land located at Nalumunye in Wakiso district where the factory located.
The development plan for the Nalumunye Industrial Park will have residential, institutional, infrastructural development and environmental protectionsection.
UIA investment executive, Pamela Ayebare, said this week, the planning process to end in December, would culminate into a $20m abattoir and a cattle-holding investment.
Ayebare said the landcomprises Plots 70 and 86 on Block 347 in Nalumunya Industrial Park.
She said Plot70 had been allocated to the Iran-Uganda Establishments Limited.
“According to our records, the Iran-Uganda Establishments Limited is injecting $20m. They are to slaughter 500 animals per day (cows, goats and sheep). The meat is to be exported to the Middle East,†Ayebare told Wakiso district councillors on Wednesday at a consultative meeting held at the district headquarters.
She said the investors were already here, awaiting to acquire land.
“We are in the last phases of consultations. We request you to make contributions towards the structural plan that has been drawn up by UIA and the physical planning department in the next one month after which adjustments will be made so that the process ends in December,†she said.
UIA legal officer, Catherine Nabirye, said the affected residents shall be compensated.
“Nobody should be worried. We shall consider case by case of the affected people. Each will be compensated according to his or her wish. Either to be re-located or be paid cash and shift to other areas,†Nabirye told the enthusiastic councillors who listened attentively throughout the half- day meeting.
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