By; Ben Musanje
Government is courting religious leaders to promote commercial farming across the country.
The newly established partnership is to have all religious leaders use their respective pulpits to encourage followers to take up commercial farming to fight poverty.
On Wednesday, the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries Vincent Balungaki Ssempijja, led members of the Inter-Religious Council of Uganda (IRCU) for a study tour to several model farmers in Kalungu and Masaka districts.
The members included the IRCU chairperson also Kampala Archbishop, Dr. Cyprian Kizito Luwanga, his Church of Uganda’s counterpart Stanley Ntagali, the council’s General Secretary Joshua Kitakule, the Vicar General of the Uganda Orthodox Church Rev. Fr. Paul Mutaasa and the Treasurer of Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC) Hajji Ramathan Isha.
Ssempijja says that the collaboration with the religious leaders will include sensitizing the leaders on the benefits of commercial farming, visiting successful farmers so that they promote their followers from an informed point of view.
However, Archbishop Lwanga says that the Catholic Church is ready to support the government in efforts to reduce poverty.
The move by the government follows a meeting between IRCU leaders and President Museveni which was aimed at diffusing tensions in the wake of spying allegations against the church that were made by Archbishop Lwanga.
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