Buganda minister for finance and investment, Robert Waggwa Nsibirwa has called on investors to tap into more agricultural technology that encourages youth involvement so that they can realise high production of crops like coffee for exports.
Nsibirwa made the remarks while briefing journalists on the upcoming coffee technology expo organized by Braz –Afric group ,scheduled for 1st to 3rd September this year at UMA conference hall in Kampala.
The expo he said will attract exhibitors from Brazil,Turkey ,Kenya,Burundi ,Rwanda and Uganda.
Nsibirwa who is also the Chief Executive officer, Africa coffee Academy says that youths are not patient to use a hoe for farming, adding that they can only appreciate agriculture through use of technology.
He also says that small holder farmers especially coffee farmers can only earn much from farming through cooperatives societies which put them in groups and afford to have quality seeds and technological machines at low cost.
He also calls for intervention to avail water for production using cheaper technology to avoid farmers losing their animals and crops to drought, adding that the coffee industry is affected by drought and disease.
Uganda is still the biggest coffee exporter in Africa with 3.5 million bags per year and second biggest producers.
