Members of parliament on the parliamentary forum for food security and population development have supported government’s move to promote agriculture cooperatives as the way of increasing food production in the country.

This follows uganda’s decision last week to celebrate world food day under the theme agricultural cooperatives-key to feeding the world.

Mps including betty Aol Achan, jacob wangolo and james kabajo say that its through cooperative that the farmers can easily access inputs, have large bargaining power and get  a basis for agricultural mechanization and value addition.

They however said that government needs to work for the senstisation of the community to appreciate the advantages of working with cooperatives.

According UN general assembly designated 2012 as an international year of cooperatives.