President Yoweri Museveni has cautioned members of Parliament against unrealistic agro-economic business ventures for their areas.
Museveni's comments followed suggestions to the president to support different agricultural interventions against the president's suggested 4 acre model
Museveni has insisted that the 4 acre model should not be challenged by unresearched agro activities citing cotton that he says has failed people of west Nile among others
Museveni has referred MPS to what is happening in Busoga where people have insisted on growing sugar cane, a practice that has kept them in poverty over the years.
President said that attention should be given to irrigation instead of rain-fed agriculture, which will ensure productivity, warning that encroachment on swamps is unacceptable.
With fruits, the return is very high. In some areas, the return is very high. The Roads yes, but the roads which are there aren’t being used fully. Yes I know the areas that don’t have good roads, I know them because I always go there. But even where the roads are good, they aren’t being used fully. So please, seek first the Kingdom of Heaven”,.said president.
Museveni has directed the mps to stop the confusion and focus on what he has researched on the 4 acre model for social economic development.
Museveni said that it is time Northern Uganda gets past the war, and focuses fully on wealth creation to improve homestead incomes.
He also said that on war-related compensation, will call a conference with elders to curb misuse.
“ I would like to appeal to people in northern Uganda to really to get out of the hunger over of the war, because many parts of Uganda have gone through war ,masak the town was destroyed completely and no single building left standing in masaka during the war with Idd Amin so mbarara.In Luwero ,we had a very bad war which lasted for five years ,is now recovered ‘so let all the political class take up my massage on the home stead income”, .said Museveni.
Museveni ordered mps to also look at the utilization of the already constructed roads before proposing more roads.
He said that the ultimate solution to infrastructural challenges is the railway, which he says is the focus of the government at present.
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