Buikwe MP tells farmers to grow more
Apr 24, 2008
BY growing more food, farmers will help reduce the soaring prices, the Buikwe North MP has said. Onyango Kakoba noted that many traders were supplying goods to southern Sudan due to the prevailing peace, which “has created a ready market and high demand for Ugandan products.â€
By Charles Kakamwa
BY growing more food, farmers will help reduce the soaring prices, the Buikwe North MP has said. Onyango Kakoba noted that many traders were supplying goods to southern Sudan due to the prevailing peace, which “has created a ready market and high demand for Ugandan products.â€
This, he added, had led to scarcity of commodities in Uganda resulting in high prices.
“The situation is challenging but let’s use the opportunity of the market in the neighbouring countries to increase our output so that we can have enough for sale and domestic use,†Kakoba explained on Saturday.
He also blamed the high prices on the crisis in Kenya after the disputed December 27 presidential polls but was optimistic that the power-sharing deal the rival parties had signed would restore peace.
The MP, who was responding to complaints by residents of Buziika and Bulumagi villages in Nyenga sub-county, Mukono district over the rising prices in the country, distributed cassava stem cuttings under his food security promotion campaign.
Nyenga sub-county received 200 sacks of the improved cassava variety known as ‘Akena’ that Onyango procured at sh2m from his Constituency Development Fund.
The variety, which is the latest on the market, he pointed out, was high-yielding, matures in nine months and takes over three years in the garden.
The MP noted that cassava was a key crop in the fight against hunger.
He clarified that the Local Service Tax that Parliament approved last week, would only be paid by adults in gainful employment unlike the abolished graduated tax which was paid by all males above 18 and employed women.
BY growing more food, farmers will help reduce the soaring prices, the Buikwe North MP has said. Onyango Kakoba noted that many traders were supplying goods to southern Sudan due to the prevailing peace, which “has created a ready market and high demand for Ugandan products.â€
This, he added, had led to scarcity of commodities in Uganda resulting in high prices.
“The situation is challenging but let’s use the opportunity of the market in the neighbouring countries to increase our output so that we can have enough for sale and domestic use,†Kakoba explained on Saturday.
He also blamed the high prices on the crisis in Kenya after the disputed December 27 presidential polls but was optimistic that the power-sharing deal the rival parties had signed would restore peace.
The MP, who was responding to complaints by residents of Buziika and Bulumagi villages in Nyenga sub-county, Mukono district over the rising prices in the country, distributed cassava stem cuttings under his food security promotion campaign.
Nyenga sub-county received 200 sacks of the improved cassava variety known as ‘Akena’ that Onyango procured at sh2m from his Constituency Development Fund.
The variety, which is the latest on the market, he pointed out, was high-yielding, matures in nine months and takes over three years in the garden.
The MP noted that cassava was a key crop in the fight against hunger.
He clarified that the Local Service Tax that Parliament approved last week, would only be paid by adults in gainful employment unlike the abolished graduated tax which was paid by all males above 18 and employed women.