Continental cooperation boosting agricultural production & improvising household incomes – Alupo
The second Africa High-Level Forum of South-South Triangular Cooperation seeks to present innovative initiatives and programs adopted by different African countries to implement agenda 2030 and 2063 of the African union.
The vice president Maj (rtd) Jessica Alupo, has appreciated the Africa high-level forum of south-south and triangular cooperation, which she said has directly and indirectly helped Uganda to fight poverty, improve household incomes quality of life and hence, achieve socio-economic transformation.
Citing the FAO-China South-South Cooperation (SSC) Program Trust Fund as an example, Alupo noted that this improved Ugandans’ well-being through increased agricultural productivity.
She explained that in one of the project areas, for example there was a four-fold increase in rice production per hectare, while in other areas, daily milk production increased from 2 liters to 7 liters per indigenous cow.
“Also, there has been production of high-quality and low-cost fish feed techniques, improved technologies of foxtail millet, maize, grapes, apples and cherry tomatoes, and animal reproduction including goats, pigs and sheep. Such Programs are now aiming to target more female farmers to improve incomes and nutrition of households in the country,” she added.
Explaining the Strategic Bottlenecks hindering Africa’s development, the vice president stated that over the years, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has been sharing his views about these bottlenecks, which were enriched by their Excellencies at the African Union and later agreed and adopted by the APRM as bottlenecks of the whole of Africa.
These are: ideological dis-orientation; interference with the private sector; under developed infrastructure; weak States; fragmented markets; lack of industrialization and low value addition; under developed Human Resources; under developed Agriculture; under developed Services among others.
The second Africa High-Level Forum of South-South Triangular Cooperation seeks to present innovative initiatives and programs adopted by different African countries to implement agenda 2030 and 2063 of the African union.
The conference which has started on Tuesday at the Commonwealth Resort Hotel in Munyonyo has been organized under the heme ‘building national capacity for South-South Triangular Cooperation ecosystems in Africa, forging horizontal partnerships for sustainable resilient societies.’
