The Disaster Ministry is warning that about 25 districts across the country are mostly likely to be affected by hunger if no immediate interventions are not taken to avert the situation.

These districts include Namutumba, Ibanda, Amuria, Moroto, Katakwi, Nakasongola Moyo among others.

Uganda's DIsaster Preparedness Minister, Musa Ecweru

The state minister for disaster Preparedness Musa Ecweru attributes the looming hunger in most parts of the country to the ongoing dry spell and hailstones that affected crops in the field.
Ecweru says most crops that were planted where destroyed by the hailstones and sunshine leaving people in those districts with failed crops and no harvest for food.

In the related development Namutumba district is one the districts that have been hit by unidentified cassava disease that attacks the cassava roots living many families with no food. This has caused most children develop kwanshako due to malnutrition.

The minister however says government is doing all it can to curb the alarming hunger situation. He says they have plans of storing grains and other food staffs as a move of rescuing the situation.

At the beginning of this week, President Yoweri Museveni directed the ministry of agriculture animal husbandry and fisheries to look into introducing irrigation schemes in the most areas that are being hit by droughts and directed the ministry to find ways of compensating the farmers whose crops have been affected by such calamities.

By Mugisa Isaac Mathias