The Minister of state for agriculture, animal industry and fisheries Kibanzanga Christopher said this while officiating at the annual general meeting of Uganda local governments association ULGA which is going on in Mubende district at Kaweeri district headquarters.

State Minister for Agriculture Christopher Kibanzanga

Kibanzanga said government has strict laws that can be applied to champion this in various districts and has done its part through agriculture support programs like naads and operation wealth creation.

The conference is under the theme “Promoting value addition in commercial agriculture for job creation, Food and social security at local government level”

The Chairman of Uganda Local Governments Association who is also the Lwengo district chairman
Mutabaazi Godfrey condemned government for letting them fail their obligations as local government leaders by failing to address to their challenges, yet most of them operate in hard to reach areas.

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The minister of Agriculture Vincent Bamulangaki Sempijja said that as government intensifies ways of stopping army worm, farmers should keep spraying their gardens with herbicides to control the army worm.

He said that researchers are considering infesting some army worm to attack and wipe out the normal army worm.

Army worm are more damaging maize and sugar cane plants.

Farmers losses over outbreak  of army worm could have bigger implication for the economy since  food prices had remained high because of the last poor harvest.

The fall army worm  was first detected in the three districts of Kayunga, Kasese and Bukedea between May and July 2016 but now it has spread in many districts

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