President Yoweri Museveni, currently on a countrywide tour to sensitize leaders and wananchi on wealth and job creation in order to banish household poverty, has thanked the people of Kwankwanzi District in Greater Mubende area of Central Region of Uganda for listening to the National Resistance Movement (NRM) advice of shifting from traditional agriculture to modernized calculative agriculture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He urged them to continue working even harder in order to defeat poverty completely from their households. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President was today addressing a\nwealth creation rally held at Nteyera Church of Uganda grounds in Kyankwanzi District.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSometimes when I give advice, some\npeople think that I am telling lies but I thank you Kyankwanzi for listening.\nIn the 1960s, I started teaching my Ankole people to shift from subsistence to\ncommercial agriculture. The same message was preached here and I see now that\npeople have woken up and are now making money. I will fully give them my\nsupport,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The President reiterated that those\nwho are actively participating in commercial agriculture, should not be selfish\nwith their knowledge, but teach others so that they can also get rid of poverty\nfrom their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He advised people that have not yet\nparticipated in commercial agriculture and have small pieces of land to take\nthree strides to get out of poverty that he enumerated as shifting from\ntraditional to commercial agriculture, being calculative and using the four-\nacre model in which they can carry out dairy farming, fruit production, poultry\nand fish farming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Turning to the environment sector, the President advised the people to desist from land fragmentation and instead embrace the western methods of creating family companies where family members can all have shares that can bring profits to them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He further noted that family companies would also help and stimulate the members who are very lazy to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cLand in Kabale is fragmented into\nvery tiny pieces and now there is nowhere they can carry out agriculture. It is\nvery wrong for you to fragment land and divide the family property. Make family\ncompanies like I have also done with my family,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
President Museveni thanked the people of Kyankwanzi District for their support during the NRM liberation struggle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He handed over a dummy cheque worth Shs.150 million to Kyankwanzi SACCO. During the rally, Buganda NRM leaders endorsed President Museveni as the Movement\u2019s sole candidate for the upcoming 2021 elections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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