Solomon Jesse, AfricaNews reporter in Kampala, Uganda
The government of Uganda has pledged to revive the agricultural mechanisation process to boost the agricultural sector, the minister of agriculture, animal industry and fisheries, Mr Hillary Onek has said. He said they had imported 50 tractors that are stationed at Namalere Agricultural Centre.
Onek said the tractors would be suitable in areas that have fragmented land ,like the central region.
''The tractors would help in pumping water for irrigation, ploughing and many other functions. We want to develop agriculture engineering, a section that had died out”, he said while commissioning Sh3.3 billion modern agriculture machinery investment at Bulenga on Friday.
''We are employing a number of agricultural engineers so that our country becomes more mechanized .They will work alongside big farmers'', Onek said. The minister also commissioned a synagogue Church of all Nations, a multi billion investment in machinery dubbed 'Get out of poverty.'
The machinery will help in maize, cotton, and rice grows. It includes four Hi-tech tractors each worth Shs500m,sprayers, harrowers and planters. Synagogue church of all Nations head Samuel Kakande said they started the programme to end the era of sitting in the church when the believers are poor.
''We want to change this. Our people are poor, jobless, sick ,homeless and this causes them to think negatively'', Pastor Kakande said.
He added that as a church they have entered commercial agriculture and business.
“ We need to help everyone so that people can have some money instead of just praying without doing anything”.
Keywords: uganda agriculture development society
