Ronald Kalyango
17 September 2008
Kampala — UGANDA is to benefit from the European Union's 1.5m euros (about sh3.5b) three-year project aimed at boosting food security in 14 African countries.
The funds will be channeled through the newly- formed African Forum for Agricultural Advisory Services (AFAAS) Secretariat.
AFAAS was launched in 2004 and is housed at the National Agriculture Advisory Services (NAADS) Secretariat at Mukwasi House, in Kampala.
The NAADS executive director, Dr. Silim Nahdy, who is also the organisation's chairperson, said more donors had agreed to finance the project.
"We want our successes in the NAADS programme to be emulated by member countries," Nahdy said.
This was during a meeting at Hotel Africana in Kampala.
"Through collaborations we shall be able to address the problems facing the agricultural sector in Africa jointly, hence reducing resource wastage," Nahdy said.
He said the funds were timely.
Group is a good chance to NAADS had sent people to Malawi and Tanzania to study farming methods and disease control.
Members include Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Mali, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
He said the NAADS programme operates in 1000 sub counties benefiting 40,000 farmers' groups drawn from 900,000 households.
"Basing on the achievements registered in advisory services under the restructured NAADS, government decided to add us two additional roles of in-put delivery and primary processing," he said.
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