Farmers rallied to incorporate Coffee Growing with Parish Dev’t Model.

By Alex Byakatonda

apearlnews.com
Kabale District leaders have today handed over 525 bags of organic
fertilizer to coffee farmers, in a bid to boost coffee growing in the
district.
According to the Uganda Coffee Development Authority, Regional coffee
extension officer for Kabale and Rukiga district, Yowasi Muhereza, the
fertilizer was requested by Kabale District Local Government through
the office of the District Agriculture officer, to improve on coffee
production in the District.

The Kabale District Principal Agricultural officer, Deus Baguma
Bagambana, commended the Uganda Coffee Development Authority for the
donation, which he said comes at a time most farmers are beginning to
embrace coffee growing. He observed that it encouraging that several
farmers in district have started to embrace coffee, saying that Kabale
has been lacking a cash crop.
He however, advised the farmers to be mindful of coffee diseases, like
coffee leaf rust and coffee belly disease, which could hamper their
production efforts.


The former Butanda Sub County councilor Eric Tumwesigye Kigunzu, who
represented the farmers, called for more donations for coffee farmers,
if the growing of the cash crop is to take shape.
He also called on the district production department to organize
exposure visits for coffee farmers, from where they can learn more and
advanced technologies and methods in coffee growing..
Kigunzu, however, said that farmers have continued to neglect coffee
growing, which hampers government’s efforts in improving their
incomes.
The Kabale District Male Youth councilor, who is the secretary for
Production, Marketing Natural Resources, Trade, Industry and Local
Development, Ronald Bagamuhunda, commended Uganda Coffee Development
Authorities for the donation, saying soils in Kabale have continued to
lose fertility.

Handing over the fertilizer at Kabale District Yard in Kabale
municipality, the Kabale District Vice Chairperson, Miria Akankwasa
Tugume, who represented the District Chairperson, Nelson
Nshangabasheija, called on the farmers to incorporate coffee growing
in the Parish Development Model, which government recently rolled
rolling out the Parish Development Model-PDM.

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