Dan Bwanika
You are addressing a massive problem narrowly. Uganda grew a whole lot of food
but that food was grown for local consumption never for earning foreign
exchange. How many cities had Uganda Matooke in the 60’s? I get a flight of
Matooke every week in this city, so that is a commercial sale which you have
thrown on food supposed to be of home consumption. But you have not changed the
growth of Matooke in Uganda to commercial growth. So you are still going to an
old grand ma in the village and cutting her Matoke down to be exported to
Toronto on a weekly basis. That land she is using is not a direct beneficially
to the exportation as she is not a direct beneficially. 15 years down the road
that plant is going to cease to exist, then what? I am still going to survive
in this city without Uganda matooke but you in Uganda are going to starve to
death. And it is called critical thinking for you need to look at the time to
come and you plan for it. Ugandans simply do not plan for the future. There was
a time Matooke mainly came from Masaka that time passed and we changed to
Eastern Uganda, can you tell me what we replaced it with in Masaka? One of the
mistakes this government has done and they are many, is to think that Ugandans
grow food so that the country gets foreign exchange, nonsense Ugandans grow
food to get local money to support their lives locally, so if the buyer takes
it to Toronto who cares, if he takes it to Katwe market again who cares? Kenya
sells flowers internationally but they also grow it commercially, what is it
you export out of Uganda that you grow commercially today?
Did you know that UPC also made that mistake? They thought that Ugandans grow
coffee to get foreign exchange to the country. Nonsense they grew it to support
their families, when coffee failed to support them they cut it down and there
is no longer coffee. But the Japs I loved the most, you see the Japs revolved
with an expensive coffee tree in Eastern Uganda, when it failed to supply their
money locally, they cut it down and planted millet. Why millet? Because you use
millet to make Amalwa which they sell locally and still get the money they need
to run their lives locally. To a Jap it never mattered If the Coffee earned
Uganda a foreign exchange but has he bought his wife a Gomesi this Christmas?
Again the argument here is that the population will manipulate the dust if it
has to, as long as it gets the money to run its lives locally. So you as a
government get and use the outcome of that investment to use it as a foreign
exchange earning power as a by the way, and the shallow thinking of government
is failing to invest into it to a commercial level. Uganda today is exporting a
whole lot of fish, but can you tell me how much they are investing into the
Lakes to grow that fish? Absolutely nothing. The Tilapia I eat in this city is
fresh from Uganda, do you know how I get it? Because Israel grows Uganda
Tilapia on commercial basis. When did they start? Way back during Obote one
government, they got samples out of Lake Victoria and started a very successful
breeding of Uganda Tilapia, it now shows up on Toronto streets in boxes as a
product from Israel. There is time to come up when the entire fish out of
Uganda Lakes dries up for you are growing it naturally but harvesting it
commercially, it simply cannot survive that long sir. By 2013 Uganda should
have stopped to fish out of lakes for export and getting all fish out of tanks
for exports but leave the Lake fish for local consumption. And honestly that is
the easiest thing to do. If Uganda fish grows in Israel tanks in a small
country under populated country as Israel why not put massive tanks into
Nakasongola to grow fish for export market? Nope we want to manufacture bullets
instead, eat the fish out of the Lakes and die.
God. Sometimes I find myself talking to my own firkin shadow.
Geez !!!!!!
EM
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Subject: {UAH} Re: There is a difference between Economic growth and Economic
Development.
In fact economic theorem will never develop a country but rather physical
planning and setting up such projects where people see the opportunities to
make money hence the economy and economic development. Who will ever go to
Yumbe to start a coca cola plant with physically planning that area? Mbu direct
foreign investment. In Kiruhura ahhaa they have developed a lot, now they do
not living a nomadic life, they also eat matooke and fruits. Development!
Imagine Bugerere and Kyagwe i 1960 with matooke, cocoa plantations etc!
For NRM the two are the same - when we came in 1986 there were no industries.
They do not say we were booming every body and NRA strategy was no economic
activities, since the economy was Obote's economy.
Bloody hopeless
Bwanika
On Wednesday, October 16, 2013 1:09:45 PM UTC+2, Hannah Ogwapiti wrote:
UAH,
There is a difference between Economic growth and Economic Development.
Economic growth is like what so called good schools do - put the bright
students in one stream and the teachers put a lot of effort to coach them so
that they can score excellent grades in the UNEB papers. The duller students
are put in other streams and may even be forced to sit their exam from another
centre so that they don't spoil the performance of the school.
Economic development is believing every child can learn. Teachers spend time
with the slow learners to empower them and identify and nurture other talents
so that they benefit from the time at school. In the good old days people
learnt social skills, writing, speech making etc so that even if they didnt
have academic flair they had something to show for going to school.
Indifference is natural And as old as creation but has the current gov't leaned
against econ. development or growth? It's a gov't full of selfish and greedy
individuals. The larger no. of Ugandans live under the poverty line and
delivery of social services is at its lowest.
What development does is that it gives people more bang for the effort they
make. If I can use another education analogy:I started P1 in a school where our
class teacher neither spoke nor wrote English so we never learnt any English
the whole year. For P2 I was moved to another school where pupils started
learning English in P1. While classmates could read the story of Poor Kapere -
I on the other hand was reduced to cramming the story and photographic
interpretation. The teachers realised my predicament and put me under the
tutorial of the grade 1 teacher and after 2 terms I was at par with the other
pupils.
So let citizens exert economic effort but let government also create a
development oriented environment. The last 3 weeks the President has been all
over the place either laying foundation stones or unveiling plaques of finished
projects but the hall mark of these projects is that they underscore the growth
mindedness of our government.
Most people who consider themselves successful if they were honest would admit
that they are so because of opportunities. My teacher gave me opportunity by
taking time to tutor me. There are people who are poor today and others who
will be poor a decade later because they have been systematically robbed of
their opportunities. Under NRM,the opportunities continue to flow (or to be
pulled) in the direction of a few.
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H.OGWAPITI
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