Government has been challenged to put in place strategic grain reserves across the country to help store food for use in times of food shortages.

This follows reports of an acute shortage of poultry feeds that has hit the country in recent months.

The executive director ugacheck poultry breeds limited Aga sekalera says the shortage mainly arise from increasing maize exportation business as well as unpredicable weather patterns experienced early this year. The poor weather resulted in poor harvest.

Sekalara says in the past two months, the cost of production increased by 6% making the poultry feeds business unprofitable.

He now says it is high time the government encourages large scale farming and giving farmers different grain seedling for human beings and those for animals, which should be stored in grain reserves spread across the country.

By Mugisa Isaac Mathias