While presenting the budget for the 2017/18 financial year yesterday, the minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Matia Kasaija, emphasized that it presents opportunities for agricultural production and industrialization.
Kasaija said the Shs 29 trillion budget must be exploited to increase household incomes. But agriculture, which employs more than 60 per cent of the population, will receive Shs 828bn in the next financial year, a slight increment from the Shs 823bn of 2016/2017.
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