NARO, industrialists to improve crop varieties
May 12, 2021
The National Development Plan III Objective Two targets sustainable industrialisation for inclusive growth.
Thus, given that about 70 per cent of Uganda’s population is engaged in farming, agriculture would play a critical role in driving such industrialisation.
However, the country must first overcome the huge hurdle of subsistence agriculture which is characterised by low production, low-nutrient and poor-quality crops often infested with diseases and pests.
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Thus farmers must be empowered with skills in modern crop husbandry and be availed improved crop varieties to advance productivity to enable them sustain supply of quality raw materials for the agro-processing industries.
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