PROSPERTY FOR ALL

We must become rich through modern agricultural practices. This was the message President Museveni has been preaching in the last two weeks during his tour in Teso region. President Museveni is known to be so passionate with the peasant class. He has been working hard to ensure that poverty, disease and ignorance are completely rooted out of Uganda.

He has been going around teso region telling people, we all must be rich in the villages. Giving himself as a model farmer, he says he makes more money from farming than the salary he gets being a president. Museveni has a ranch in his home region of Ankole, where he has thousands of cattle for milk and beef production. Museveni says Government has been building schools, providing primary health care but it had not embarked on the Prosperity For All progamme. Now is the time for peasants to become rich through modern farming practices.

In his agenda Museveni wants all peasant farmers to earn an income of 20 Million Uganda shillings per year (about 10,000 dollars) in each home stead. He wants farmers to have a daily, a monthly and quarterly income throughout the year.

This gospel has excited local communities. Whenever he went Museveni met peasants struggling to make a living through growing oranges, rearing goats and cattle. He has asked local government leaders to support farmers through provision of agricultural advisory services and inputs.

His government has been releasing money to local governments in order to make this a reality. Unfortunately in some areas, the money was swindled and much of it spent on endless workshops instead of assisting farmers. Because he does not want his agenda to fail, Museveni has been tough on local leaders on these funds.

For the last twenty two years, Museveni has been power at least for now, the opposition leaders seem to agree with him that, our people must become rich through farming.