Museveni returns to Kisozi, takes NRM members and EALA MPs on a farm tour about wealth creation

Описание: President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has assured the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Parliamentary Caucus that since coming to power in 1986, his government has been working for the socio-economic transformation of Ugandans.
“A country like Uganda is very rich, it has got a lot of national resources but the problem is that the population did not know how to use the national resources to live a good way; the modern way and that's why we have been advising them that they need to move on two fronts. Number one, free education for all and number two, prosperity /wealth creation for all,” he said.
The President made the remarks today while meeting the NRM Parliamentary Caucus led by the Government Chief Whip, Hon. Denis Hamson Obua at his Kisozi farm in Gomba District. The meeting was also attended by some wealth creators in the area.
President Museveni explained that in order to achieve the desired socio-economic transformation, Ugandans need to get involved in the money economy through the four sectors of the economy which include, commercial agriculture, industries/manufacturing, services and ICT.
“Now if you go into one of those, definitely, you join the money economy because part of the problem of Uganda here was that the majority of the people were outside the money economy, they were just working for food,” he said.
“We have been educating Ugandans about commercial agriculture with “ekibaro” (to assess how much you would get). In this case we insist that separate intensive agriculture where you go for the high value enterprises from extensive agriculture where you get little money per acre but because you have done it on a big scale, you will end up getting good money.”
President Museveni also revealed that through the government, he has been able to successfully preach the wealth creation gospel to many parts of the country like the cattle corridor.
“In the cattle corridor we have done a good job, people have joined dairy farming but where we are now, many parts are mainly crop areas and this is where we have been fighting to get this concept of intensive agriculture where people with small land can get out of poverty,” he noted.
“When I came here, of course there were a lot of contradictory messages but eventually people listened to what I was telling them.”
On the misconception, misinformation and politicising government programmes (rationalisation, specifically the Uganda Coffee Development Authority), the President advised the legislators that, “We are going to have a showdown, they are liars and criminals playing with fire. They will not like the counterattack.”Those saying that you don't wish well coffee farmers have a problem. When you came here in the 1990s, I was a child in school. We had only two people with coffee plantations in Kisozi A. Those were my grandfather and father who had a quarter an acre and half an acre respectively. But now we have 295 acres of coffee as people of Kisozi A.”
He advised that the leaders such as the NRM MPs should sensitise the masses that the Coffee bill is meant to develop the coffee sector.
Earlier, the legislators and government officials had a field tour to several farms of the successful wealth creators.
The field tour was led by the Vice President H.E Jessica Alupo and also attended by members of the NRM top organ, various ministers, and a delegation led by EALA Speaker Rt. Hon Joseph Ntakirutimana.
Rt. Hon. Ntakirutimana said that they were visiting as part of an oversight effort, aiming to learn from the President's good farm practices and the experiences of local farmers.
Among those who shared their stories was Mr. Sonko Anthony, a coffee farmer, of Kifamba who reported that his 15-acre farm produced 14,400kg of coffee last season, yielding Shs 86 million.
“I am able to pay school fees for my five children,” he shared, adding that he also received banana suckers from the President, which allowed him to intercrop matooke with coffee.