He said the challenge now is to encourage dairy farmers to adopt the zero-grazing method as opposed to free grazing
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President Museveni has defended his wealth creation strategy to the leadership of the three arms of the government by presenting accountability in the form of testimonies of significant achievements already registered by farmers in Gomba and Sembabule districts who listened to his advice.
“We the people of Kisozi have decided to invite you to share with you our line of thinking which is the line of NRM. Some people were fighting Sarah Nalwanga [project Coordinator].I told them that this is not Nalwanga’s project but my project. Nalwanga now runs a nursery bed of coffee and fruit seedlings so that we distribute them to more people then we can add other things later,” he said.
The President accompanied by the First Lady and Minister of Education and Sports, Maama Janet Museveni,made the remarks today at a special public rally held at Kisozi Primary School in Gomba District to prove to the leaders of the country that it is possible to eradicate poverty from the population if only they (leaders) could lead by example.
President Museveni noted that the whole cattle corridor has the same success stories right from Isingiro, Mbarara, Kiruhura, Lyantonde, Sembabule, Gomba, Kyakwanzi, Kiboga, Ngoma and Masindi following their student movement’s aggressive wealth creation sensitization campaign to the population.
He said the challenge now is to encourage dairy farmers to adopt the zero-grazing method as opposed to free grazing.
“In Uganda you need to have three and a half square miles to keep 1,000 cows. You may not have that type of land, so we said no, you do dairy farming. In 1989, we started doing dairy farming and by 1995 it worked in Nyabushozi and in the cattle corridor, it spread like wildfire,” President Museveni said.
“You remember I did the countrywide tour, I saw it was working. I reached everywhere and I thought it could catch on. In 2018, I distributed this booklet, the 4 sectors and 7 activities for wealth creation but at the same time I used the method of working with people near me,” he added.
The President further noted that when he acquired land in Kisozi in the 1990s, residents of the area were democratically poor and he was therefore encouraged to lift them out of poverty by assigning officers from the State House to investigate and recommend the way forward, thus giving birth to the 4 acre model.
He reiterated the zeal of NRM strategy to get all the people of Uganda out of poverty by encouraging them to deeply get involved in modern commercial agriculture with calculation.
The Gomba West Member of Parliament, Hon. Robina Rwakoojo commended President Museveni for inviting all the three arms of government (Executive, Judiciary and legislature) to her constituency.