Nsibirwa with Buganda’s budget 2016/17.

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.

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Parched Earth in Africa

Environmental NGOs have launched the report showing the progress of the implementation of the national adaptation programmes of action (NAPA) towards climate change mitigation and adaptation, calling for more and serious work to be done by government for the targets to be realized, in a bid for Uganda to cope up with climate change effects.

While releasing the report the lead researcher for the NAPA, Dr. Justine Jjumba says that the focus  should be on tree planting, water source management and restoration, land degradation management, water for production, drought adaptation, community water and sanitation, strengthening meteorological services, climate change and development planning among others, and should be implemented by the relevant government agencies and departments as well as the NGOs to address issues of adverse climate change that the experts say have for long been neglected. The report continues to highlight areas in the country that are greatly affected by climate change effects and among them include the Karamoja, Teso, elgon, Rwenzori and cattle corridor regions. The report further notes that if Uganda can fully implement the finding key points then climate change issues will be addressed.

However launching the report, the chairman NAPA, Dr. Kisamba Mugerwa advised the relevant agencies of government and NGOs to help move down the messages developed in the NAPA to the grass root since the masses there are directly affected and are the same people who manage the natural resources the NAPA is trying to protect.

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