Utilise Internet to market your products, Museveni tells farmers
Minister for Tourism Wild life and Antiquities, Prof Ephraim Kamuntu, inspects stalls of some of the products made by women groups under the Hunger Project Uganda. PHOTO BY FELIX AINEBYOONA
What you need to know:
- Reason. President Museveni has urged farmers in Kiruhura District to learn how to use computers and internet in order to market their products world-wide.
- The Hunger Project Uganda country director, Ms Daisy Ndikuno Owomugasho, while handing over Kiruhura epicenter said the project cost Shs3.3b since its establishment in 2006.
Kiruhura. President Museveni has asked Ugandans to use the internet for marketing their agriculture products to the outside world.
In his speech read by the Minister of Tourism, Prof Ephraim Kamuntu, at the hand over of Kiruhura Epicentre by the Hunger Project Uganda in Kitura Sub-county last Thursday, the President said Ugandans must learn how to use computers and internet if they want to create market for their agricultural outputs.
“You must learn how to use computers so that your products reach to the rest of the world,” President Museveni said.
Adding that improved market will transform the society from peasantry to modernity more so transform the country from third world to first world.
President Museveni also said the government is committed to supporting women and youth groups in the country as the best method of kicking poverty out of households since they are directly involved in agriculture.
Causes of Famine
Prof Kamuntu said famine in the country has been caused by changes in climate.
“Fundamentally ,the cause of food shortage in Uganda is because climate has changed and it is unpredictable consequently. Farmers plant expecting rain and it does not come, their crops dry up and die because of drought,” he said adding “We receive a lot of rainfall annually. We get more than 1200mm of rainfall which is a lot by international standards. If they were harvesting all that rain, we could have stored and used it for irrigation to save the situation. It is what we are going to do.”
The Hunger Project Uganda country director, Ms Daisy Ndikuno Owomugasho, while handing over Kiruhura epicenter said the project cost Shs3.3b since its establishment in 2006.
Ms Owomugasho said the organisation has contributed to capacity building of residents to enable them access basic services needed to achieve national development goals and sustainable development goals and more so become more self-reliant than depending entirely on donor aid.
The Hunger Project
The Hunger Project is a non-government organisation that works to build sustainable community-based programmes using the epicentre strategy. An epicentre is a dynamic centre of community mobilisation and action as well as an actual facility built by community members.
