President Museveni revealed that Uganda produces almost any agricultural commodity anyone can name on earth; ranging from fruits and vegetables, meats, dairy products, nuts and grains as well as the essential vegetable oils.
President Museveni: There's also another mistake, the one of fragmenting land when the head of the family dies. This means that in each generation, the family land is becoming smaller and smaller. We are going to have land with disability because in some parts of the country.
President Museveni says people who are engaged in subsistence farming on small land holdings, should shift and utilize their pieces of land to profitable modern agriculture practices to enhance their wealth and average health status.
President Museveni says the medicine for poverty is wealth creation. And the cause for poverty is lack of sensitisation to the people by their leaders.
President Museveni noted that the work of defending and developing the country is well laid out and if everybody does their part, the country will develop very fast.
President Museveni said that education, should not only build the minds of the students, but also their hearts. “Our children must be taught the value of courage, honesty, generosity and selfless service”.
President Museveni said the NRM’s mission is to enhance the pace of social economic development by implementing far reaching changes in the livelihoods of the people through transformation of the Ugandan economy and households.
President Museveni said that it has been the grace of God to give them a family, children and grand children. He says that their children were protected by God who has prospered them even though they went through tough times while he fought in the bush to liberate the country.
President Museveni explained that Uganda’s education system must emphasize the issue of manufacturing and expanding services and it must expose how Africa and other parts of the world can go from raw materials to an integrated economy.