Museveni, Kanungu leaders discuss wealth creation

Jun 05, 2014

President Yoweri Museveni has urged leaders from Kanungu district to encourage their people engage in modern agriculture.

By Vision Reporter

President Yoweri Museveni has urged leaders from Kanungu district to encourage their people engage in modern agro production for income generation, saying this is the best way to fight poverty at the household level.

The President also assured the people of Kanungu that reconstruction of bridges in the region was already underway with Ntungwa Bridge on the Ishasha-Kasese Road connecting Rukungiri and Kanungu already complete including the Birara bridge on the Rukungiri-Birara-Kanungu road.

He said funds for the main Kanungu-Rukungiri Road have already been provided by the African Development Bank and arrangements for its reconstruction are already underway.

Museveni was speaking during a meeting with district leaders including the area MP Dr. Chris Baryomunsi, elders and the clergy from Kanungu District at his country home in Rwakitura, Kiruhura District.

The meeting was a follow up of an earlier meeting last year during which the district presented a proposal regarding the various enterprises they identified for promotion under the wealth creation campaign including tea and coffee production, poultry, animal husbandry and food production.

The President urged the leaders to promote cost effective enterprises such as bee keeping, poultry, piggery, fish ponds and fruit farming can all be done successfully on a few acres of land.

The Kanungu District LCV chairmperson Josephine Kasya commended the President for his support towards the district including the provision of the sh30m tea seedlings that were supplied and planted.

These she said, have attracted another two tea processing factories. She also thanked the President for sh5m coffee seedlings, half of which have already been supplied while the other half will be provided in the next planting season.

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