Our Pearl of a country is blessed with fertile agricultural land, up to 80% of our 241,038 km2,with a potential to feed 200 million people. Sadly only, 35% of this land is being cultivated.
The crisis between Russia and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) now being tussled out in Ukraine has brought to the fore the long hidden fact that most of the countries of our world are unable to produce enough food for their populations.
This affirms president Museveni’s singular insistence on promoting modern agriculture, either through aggressive intensive agriculture – the 4 acre model – or through extensive agriculture such as ranching.
Because we must all eat to live, agriculture is a unique investment sector. It provides opportunities across a wide swath including but not limited to production, input supply, value addition processing, standards compliance and export as well as in post harvest handling.
For this week's picture, we have chosen Mbarara Central Market where over 100 stalls are dedicated to selling fresh farm produce.
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