Bukenya advises on agricultural productivity

Feb 05, 2009

THE Vice-President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, has asked civic leaders and extension workers in the central region to revamp service delivery for more tangible results.<br>This, Bukenya said, would be done through self-sacrifice and hard work.

By Chris Kiwawulo

THE Vice-President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, has asked civic leaders and extension workers in the central region to revamp service delivery for more tangible results.
This, Bukenya said, would be done through self-sacrifice and hard work.

The Vice-President was speaking at the closing of a two-day district leaders and progressive workshop for the central region at the Pope Paul VI Memorial Hotel Rubaga in Kampala recently.

Citing the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS), Bukenya said: “Farming programmes must change from operating on standing orders of development partners to solving the needs of the people where they operate.”

Leaders who escalate poverty among farmers by deliberately holding back vital information or recommending low-yield seeds and animals should not be tolerated, Bukenya said.

“Leaders should also utilise their meagre resources effectively to reduce on mediocre performance that is associated with lack of facilitation,” he said.

Wakiso district chairman Ian Kyeyune said the youth in his district had shunned farming and opted for quick paying jobs.

Mukono’s Francis Lukoya Mukome urged the Government to formulate a policy to promote appropriate farming technologies.

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