President Museveni emphasizes the importance of agriculture as a solution to poverty, urging leaders to promote commercial agriculture and highlighting the government's support through the Parish Development Model (PDM).
President Museveni has told leaders from Bugisu sub region that the solution to poverty is agriculture. According to the president, leaders should mobilize the masses to embrace commercial agriculture in order to fight poverty and improve their homestead incomes. He noted that the government is already supporting ordinary Uganda ns with start-up capital in the form of the Parish Development Model (PDM) to enable them to invest in commercial agriculture.
'Agriculture is the medicine for poverty, and we are now sending Shs 100 million per parish each year. That means in 3 years we would have sent Shs 300 million. In the third year, the ones who got first will pay back, so we have another Shs100 million and in five years, we shall have Shs500 million fresh from the government plus Shs 300 million brought back by the borrowers. So, the parish will now have Shs 800 million and if we do it for another term of five years, the parish bank will have Shs 1.6 billion. This money will never come back to the government, it will remain in the parish,' he said. The president made the remarks on Wednesday while meeting leaders in Bugisu sub region in Bulambuli district. The meeting was part of the presidential regional performance assessment tour on the Parish Development Model and wealth creation in Bugisu sub region. 'In the 1996 Manifesto, we recommended to you seven activities that can be done in a small area. That is how we introduced the 4-acre model. We said if you have enough land, don't go for cotton and sugarcane because those need a lot of land. But for you with four acres or less, go for coffee, fruits, grass for pasture for cows, food crops for the home. Then in the backyard you put poultry for eggs, piggery and fish farming for those near the swamps. That's what we recommended in writing in the 1996 manifesto,' he said. President Museveni said that he is going to order the arrest of all those involved in the theft of the PDM fund
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