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May 15th, 2018 / Daily Monitor, Uganda

B4FA Fellow, Michael Ssali, writes:
Agriculture is the science of growing crops and rearing animals for food and income.

The sector, which is our biggest employer, is however faced with a number of challenges that need immediate attention.

They range from climate change, incurable crop diseases, a fast growing population, land fragmentation, and depleted soils among others.
Due to the onset of climate change some parts of the country experience abnormally long droughts resulting in disastrous crop failure and death of farmed animals.

The country is now host to pests and crop diseases that have no known cure and they are fast wiping out major food and cash crops such as banana, sweet potato, cassava, Irish potato, maize, and Robusta coffee among others.
Uganda is the largest producer of banana and sweet potato in Africa. Read more