MUSEVENI APPLAUDS SEBEI FARMERS FOR PROGRESS IN ADOPTING FOUR-ACRE MODEL STRATEGY

President Museveni today commenced his three-day wealth creation and Parish Development Model (PDM) performance assessment tour in the Sebei sub region which is scheduled to end on December 12, 2024.
“I am very glad to see people waking up. Wherever I go, I see people making progress. This is exactly where we came from. In 1986 when I first visited here in the Sebei region, I found that people were hardworking, but they were working without “Ekibaro” (calculation),” he said.
“They would grow maize, which would only last nine months. First of all, maize is a very low-value crop unless you grow it on a large scale. If you grow it on a small scale, you won’t get money, and that was the problem across the whole country.”
The President explained the National Resistance Movement (NRM)’s efforts to educate Ugandans on aligning agricultural practices with land sizes and needs.
“NRM taught you that there are two types of agriculture: extensive and intensive. Extensive agriculture involves growing products like maize and cotton on a big scale. These products don’t give high income per acre, but if you do them on a large scale, you will get both food and money. For example, much of the animal feed comes from maize, so you can’t do farming for poultry, piggery, or even cows without maize,” he said.
“If a farmer cultivates 1,000 acres of maize, they can earn significant money, even a billion shillings. The same applies to crops like sugarcane. If you grow ten acres, you get ten million; if you grow 100 acres, you get 100 million. These crops require scale to be profitable,” he added.
The President also addressed the challenges of small landholdings and the solutions designed for such farmers