Rehema Uganda
If Ugandan government helps the farmers to grow rice in Uganda, do the
Ugandans that actually need it for hunger have the money to buy it to their
homes? And as usual I use these arguments to show how loopy these debates
are, I submit a fishing industry that has built its self under this
government to levels it has never grown, Uganda is one of the major
exporters of fish in Great Lakes today, Uganda government uses fish to
purchase the weapons it needs from several counties, but how many Uganda
homes actually have the money to access that fish for the protein supply
into their children? Because originally fish was pumped up in Uganda to
build protein in Uganda family deity, but how many Ugandans actually are
able to buy it?
And I am not asking the Kampala Ugandans but Uganda Ugandans.
EM
On the 49th
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"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rehema Uganda
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 11:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]; Beti Kamya
Subject: Re: [UAH] THE REASON WHY GILBERT BUKENYA SHOULD BE OUR NEXT
PRESIDENT
Unfortunately, they get no support unless if you are a foreigner. An
indigenrous person is finding it difficult to compete with foreign investors
in anything in Uganda.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 4:32 PM, WB Kyijomanyi <[email protected]>
wrote:
Ms Ogwapiti:
The new rice variety can grown anywhere so Ugandans should get on with it.
Grow rice, sale some to improve their living standards and save some for
domestic consumption. The govt too must be ready to help farmers sale their
crop. Actually the govt could buy and stock rice in strategic reserves
against hunger in Uganda.
QN: from the story below growing rice is something most Ugandans could do,
so what is being done to help them and fight poverty? What kind of support
is being offered to farmers?
WBK
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Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:47:59 +0000
Subject: [UAH] THE REASON WHY GILBERT BUKENYA SHOULD BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]; [email protected]
<http://sphotos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/429559_407642375918565_209287
8148_n.jpg> Do You Know Kibimba, a rice estate famed for its Tilda rice
brand, is one of Ugandas leading rice growing estates? Tilda currently
produces 20,000 metric tonnes of rice per year, accounting for about 20 per
cent of the total rice production in the country. Unfortunately, it is also
owned by Indians. They are slowly taking over Uganda again and we are only
looking on doing only 'kyeyo'.
Ten years ago, Uganda was hardly known among rice producing countries but
recent successes in rice production have earned the country a respectable
place among rice producers that it could quickly turn into the regional
supplier of rice. The Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research cites Uganda as the best case of a country that has turned from
heavily depending on rice imports to one that is almost producing more than
it needs.
Rice production has increased by more than 400 per cent in a decade due to
improved agricultural practices, effectively positioning Uganda into a
potential rice basket.
Company name: Tilda Uganda Ltd
PO Box address: P.O.Box 23019 Kampala
Physical address: Kibimba, Bugiri
Contact name: Mr Venugopal Pookat
Telephone number: +256 (033) 555 000
Fax number: +256 (033) 555 111
Mobile number: +256 (077) 2255 444 <tel:%2B256%20%28077%29%202255%20444>
E-mail: [email protected]
Company activities: Farming & Processing of Rice
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<http://www.unffe.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36:uganda
s-bet-on-rice-begins-to-payoff&catid=1:news&Itemid=13> s bet on rice begins
to payoff
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Trucks laden with cartons of rice make their way out of Kibimba Rice Scheme,
momentarily turning the rice farm into a beehive of activity. Kibimba, a
rice estate famed for its Tilda rice brand, is one of Ugandas leading rice
growing estates. Tilda currently produces 20,000 metric tonnes of rice per
year, accounting for about 20 per cent of the total rice production in the
country.
Ten years ago, Uganda was hardly known among rice producing countries but
recent successes in rice production have earned the country a respectable
place among rice producers that it could quickly turn into the regional
supplier of rice. The Consultative Group on International Agricultural
Research cites Uganda as the best case of a country that has turned from
heavily depending on rice imports to one that is almost producing more than
it needs.
Rice production has increased by more than 400 per cent in a decade due to
improved agricultural practices, effectively positioning Uganda into a
potential rice basket.
The Ministry of Trade estimates that rice output has more than doubled every
year since 2004 and is expected to reach 180,000 metric tonnes by end of
this year, up from 135,000 metric tonnes in 2006. Consumption of imported
rice, meanwhile, has fallen by half every year since 2004.
Uganda partly owes the recent boom in rice production to the resurgence of
Kibimba Rice Scheme and the governments effort to promote rice growing
among small holder farmers who account for more than 80 per cent of the
total rice production. We promote rice as something that brings food and
also money, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, the vice president and also the leading
advocate of rice growing as a poverty alleviation tool, said.
Mr George Bigirwa, a crop scientist and also the programme
<http://www.unffe.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36:uganda
s-bet-on-rice-begins-to-payoff&catid=1:news&Itemid=13> officer of Alliance
for Green Revolution who was also instrumental in steering rice production
in Uganda as a researcher at National Agricultural Organisation (Naro), said
upland rice makes rice growing much easier as opposed to traditional
varieties that mainly grow in paddies. Rice was previously a low priority
crop but due to innovative research at Naro we were able to come up with
adaptable varieties, he said. The government then took up the seeds and
begun promoting rice growing.
Uganda mainly produces three varieties New Rice for Africa (Nerica) that is
Nerica 1, 4 and 10. Nerica 4 locally known as upland rice is what has turned
many rice farmers into millionaires. Nerica varieties can be grown in
places that were not possible before, he said. Smallholder farmers
cultivating pieces of land less than 5 acres are reaping from the rice
windfall.
Mr Frank Twimukye, a rice farmer from Bugangari sub county in Rukungiri
District recently got Shs2.2 million from 30 bags of rice he harvested rice
on 2-acre piece of land. We now have a better standard of living; we can
afford to send our children to school; put up iron-roofed houses and buy
blankets and mattresses
<http://www.unffe.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36:uganda
s-bet-on-rice-begins-to-payoff&catid=1:news&Itemid=13> , he said.
Mr Ntaho Frank, the chief administrative officer of Rukungiri said tobacco
growing in the sub counties of Bugangari and Bwambara has virtually
collapsed after the government introduced rice growing in the area. Farmers
realised that growing rice was more economically viable than tobacco
growing, he said.
Over the past few months, increase in rice prices due to a temporary
imbalance in the supply and demand of rice, has created more profits for
Ugandan farmers as farm-gate prices for rice shot to unprecedented levels.
During this period a bag of rice increased to Shs75,000 up from Shs40,000.
The current premium price of rice and other food stuffs offers smallholder
farmers an excellent opportunity to grow more rice and other cereals. The
remunerative price of food will significantly raise rural household income
<http://www.unffe.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36:uganda
s-bet-on-rice-begins-to-payoff&catid=1:news&Itemid=13> , living standards
and also feed the region, Mr Venugopal Pookat, the director of Tilda Uganda
Limited, said.
Ugandas total area under rice cultivation is now 300 per cent of what it
was a decade ago. The area has increased from less than 60,000 and is now
about 180, 000 hectares, showing a high rate uptake in rice production.
The countrys decision to increase tariff on rice imports is also partly
responsible for increased production. Uganda imposed a 75 per cent duty on
rice imports as a way of boosting local rice production. Rice importers on
seeing the shift in the government policy thus heavily invested in new rice
mills and expanding rice production in the country.
This decision to increase tariff
<http://www.unffe.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36:uganda
s-bet-on-rice-begins-to-payoff&catid=1:news&Itemid=13> on rice imports
mirrors that of big rice exporters, such as the US and Vietnam that continue
to supply massive subsidies to their rice farmers. And such policy actions
have quickly turned the country into a regional supplier of rice. We
estimate that approximately 75 per cent of the rice we produce is consumed
in the domestic market and the balance is exported to neighbouring East
African Countries, Mr Pookat said. The main market for various brands of
Tilda rice namely Tilda Kibimba Rice, Tilda Classic Aromatic, Tilda Crystal
Rice and Tilda Rice Halves is the domestic market in Uganda, Western Kenya,
Southern Sudan and Eastern DRC.
However, due to the popularity and explosive growth in rice cultivation in
the country, firms such as Tilda have begun losing skilled field workers.
When we lose our workers, we have to make great efforts in finding and
training their replacement, Mr Pookat said. He said the exponential
increase in the cost of fuel, fertiliser, herbicides, and packaging material
also presents its own challenges.
Mr Pookat said the current financial crisis and squeeze of disposable
income, forces consumers to consider what they believe to be cheaper
carbohydrate alternatives whenever available.
While Uganda is turning into a regional supplier of rice, the country still
imports rice from Pakistan, India, and Vietnam, some of the worlds leading
rice producers that can afford to dump rice in the market.
Keen on taking on the big rice exporting firms from Asia, Tilda Uganda
Limited has diversified into the aromatic basmati rice. We have
successfully managed to cultivate Basmati type varieties at our farm in
Kibimba in Bugiri District and this product is available in limited
quantities, Mr Pookat said. Tilda Classic Aromatic rice represents
excellent value to consumers in Uganda when compared to the high price of
imported Basmati.
As Uganda positions itself to be among the leading rice producers in the
region, the general feeling among rice producers is that the government must
sustain the current support because the industry has not fully taken off.
With the continued support of the Agricultural Ministry and our government,
Uganda will be able to also supply our neighbouring countries, generating
valuable foreign exchange and leading to greater food security for the East
African region, Mr Pookat said.
While the country is currently enjoying a boom in rice growing supported by
good farming practices and premium market prices, players in the rice
industry say the boom may not last long. Due to the diversion of
agricultural land for bio-fuels, increasing unreliability of traditional
weather patterns due to climate change and desire of many rice growing
nations to build up buffer stocks, we may seen the end of very cheap food
(cereal) prices for the next 10 to 15 years, Mr Pookat said.
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