Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over 300 exhibitors bear turned up on the continued national agricultural demonstrate.
This one year’s thirty first agricultural demonstrate, which kicked off on Friday, is running below the theme of “technological improvements using farm wealth,”.
The acting agricultural demonstrate spokesperson, Alex Mugotanyi, says that, after realization that agriculture is the spine of Uganda’s economy, they’ve partnered with exhibitors to showcase the latest farm technologies in a describe to abet farmers.
Mugotanyi says that the latest technologies are largely within the put of residing of agricultural mechanisation, with exhibitors showcasing efficient and practical farm gear. He says that these sorts of technologies encompass hand tractors, costing between 5 to 10 Million Shillings, that are with out danger practical for farmers kickstarting their journeys within the agrimechanization sector.
Mugotanyi also gives highlights about what he termed as easy-to-expend irrigation systems costing One Million Shillings, which he says can enhance yields for farmers in drought-afflicted areas.
Mugotanyi says that farmers are being trained on how simplest they are able to expend standard seed technologies to enhance their farm yields and, in turn, income from their agricultural investments.
Immaculate Musoke, a few of the exhibitors, says that they suspect that this one year’s demonstrate will offer them a platform to tackle farmers’ wants on the self-discipline of technology uptake on their farms.
Musoke says that, since this first week has been restricted to adults, the past two days bear been yielding with the agritech consultants sharing in a single session with farmers, who so want, the akin to enhance their outcomes.
Additionally, Rose Nakiirya says that she is showcasing standard strategies of moderating each and every moisture hiss and gentle-weight to enhance mushroom yields. Nakiirya says that, by partnerships with assorted analysis scientists with an passion in bettering each and every the nutritional and monetary worth of mushrooms, this demonstrate has given them a platform to showcase them to farmers.
This one year’s demonstrate has been divided into two segments, with the grownup demonstrate goers visiting exhibition stalls from twenty seventh-fifth, July 2025, while the college students’ demonstrate, with largely faculties, schooling institutions and universities, will beginning up on sixth-12th July 2025.
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