Joyce Namutebi
30 November 2008
Kampala — THE Prosperity-for-All programme, a campaign to alleviate household poverty, transform peasants into commercial farmers, President Yoweri Museveni has said.
Addressing 290 district officials, military and Prisons officers at the National Leadership Institute at Kyankwanzi on Saturday, Museveni said every homestead had to engage in commercial agriculture to ensure food security.
During the three-week course, the participants were introduced to economic planning and management and the political history of Uganda.
The President urged the group to use their skills to assist the local people in selecting their enterprises, a press release from the State House said.
The President also cautioned Ugandans against land fragmentation, saying it retarded agricultural production.
Museveni urged land owners to engage in zero grazing, goat and poultry rearing, fruit production and fish farming.
He said the tobacco and maize production could only be profitable if carried out on a large-scale.
Finance minister Ezra Suruma hailed the group for its good performance in the economic planning and management subjects.
The lecture was also attended by Rebecca Garang, the wife of the late President of South Sudan, John Garang.
Garang died in a plane crash in July 2005 on his way to Sudan from Uganda.
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