Ugandans have been urged to utilize the services of the National Agriculture Advisory services to improve their farming and ensure enough food for local consumption and export.

In an interview, the chairman of NAADS board of directors Mwalimu Musheshe says NAADS services are available in all the 112 districts of the country and will soon be rolled out in all the villages.

Musheshe attributes the current high food prices to high demand coupled with export of food to foreign markets especially to Sudan, Kenya, and DRC.

He observed that food production has not increased yet the demand is on the increase.
Musheshe also noted that a few people in anyone given family are engaged in food production yet all members of the family need to eat.

He says NAADS is appealing that government increase funding to the agricultural sector in accidence to the Maputo protocol which requires at least 15% of national budgets to be allocated to agriculture, the key sector of the economy.
By Mugisa Isaac Mathias