By Ben Musanje
20th July 2023
Government through the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries has handed over 25 medium sized 75 HP tractors and their accessories to select large scale commercial farmers and groups from across the country.
This is meant to help them try and catch up with the planting seasons.
According to Agriculture Minister, Frank Tumwebaze, for the last two years, Government’s policy and strategy has been focused on increasing production horizontally first.
He says horizontal expansion of production means opening of more available arable unutilized land and putting it under effective production.
Through Government agencies like; the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS), the Ministry of Agriculture started identifying and profiling these large scale farmers/farming entities district by district and we have created a data bank.
Large scale commercial farmers are able to produce and develop the whole enterprise value chain on farm and so they become centers of aggregation and sustainable market for the small holder farmers around their nucleus farms.
Speaking at the handover ceremony, Minister Tumwebaze said modernization of agriculture can’t be complete without adoption of precision farming technologies like; irrigation, correct fertilizer usage, proper harvest and post harvest handling and storage among others. He says the large scale farming centers will be the vanguard of this adoption.
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