Museveni tells NAADS to help farmers
Sep 08, 2008
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has asked the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) to help farmers to get out of subsistence farming. He said the Government had released sh120b to help farmers to adopt commercial farming.
By Fortunate Ahimbisibwe
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has asked the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) to help farmers to get out of subsistence farming. Museveni said the Government had released sh120b to help farmers to adopt commercial farming.
“NAADS should do more work by moving into the villages to help farmers who are currently engaging in subsistence farming,†he said.
“We need to stop producing for home consumption only. We should start looking at how we can produce for selling on the international market.â€
Museveni was on Thursday addressing Kanungu district leaders at the end of his four-day poverty eradication tour of the district.
Museveni, who visited over 10 model farmers in Kanungu, said he was impressed with what some of the farmers were doing.
“I am going to talk to the people managing NAADS to strengthen their monitoring and advisory roles. I will ask them to increase the number of model farmers in the district,†he said.
During one of the rallies at Kambuga Secondary School, Museveni asked the residents weather they were satisfied with the work of NAADS.
“Don’t get scared of telling me the truth about the performance of NAADS. We need to find out how they are working so that we advise them to improve,†he said.
Several model farmers said NAADS had improved their farming through training and provision of seeds. However, others said they had never heard about NAADS.
An elderly woman said she had never received any assistance from NAADs in spite of having one of the biggest coffee plantations in the district. Museveni donated trucks to farmers in Rutenga, Kihiihi, Kambuga, Mpugu and Butogota sub-counties.
He thanked the residents for supporting the National Resistance Movement.
The President was accompanied by Kinkiizi East MP Dr. Chris Baryomunsi, Kanungu MP Jacqueline Kyotuhaire and district LC5 chairperson Josephine Kasya.
At all the eight rallies Museveni addressed during his tour, the leaders asked him to contest for a fourth term during the 2011 elections.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni has asked the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) to help farmers to get out of subsistence farming. Museveni said the Government had released sh120b to help farmers to adopt commercial farming.
“NAADS should do more work by moving into the villages to help farmers who are currently engaging in subsistence farming,†he said.
“We need to stop producing for home consumption only. We should start looking at how we can produce for selling on the international market.â€
Museveni was on Thursday addressing Kanungu district leaders at the end of his four-day poverty eradication tour of the district.
Museveni, who visited over 10 model farmers in Kanungu, said he was impressed with what some of the farmers were doing.
“I am going to talk to the people managing NAADS to strengthen their monitoring and advisory roles. I will ask them to increase the number of model farmers in the district,†he said.
During one of the rallies at Kambuga Secondary School, Museveni asked the residents weather they were satisfied with the work of NAADS.
“Don’t get scared of telling me the truth about the performance of NAADS. We need to find out how they are working so that we advise them to improve,†he said.
Several model farmers said NAADS had improved their farming through training and provision of seeds. However, others said they had never heard about NAADS.
An elderly woman said she had never received any assistance from NAADs in spite of having one of the biggest coffee plantations in the district. Museveni donated trucks to farmers in Rutenga, Kihiihi, Kambuga, Mpugu and Butogota sub-counties.
He thanked the residents for supporting the National Resistance Movement.
The President was accompanied by Kinkiizi East MP Dr. Chris Baryomunsi, Kanungu MP Jacqueline Kyotuhaire and district LC5 chairperson Josephine Kasya.
At all the eight rallies Museveni addressed during his tour, the leaders asked him to contest for a fourth term during the 2011 elections.