Members of Parliament on the Agriculture Committee are asking farmers across the country to engage in coffee farming as it has become a highly paying cash crop in uganda.
The members of parliament have conducted an oversight visit of NARO institutes on Coffee (in Mukono), Crops (Namulonge) and Livestock (Nakyesasa).
NARO is established under the National Agricultural Act, Act No. 19 of 2005, Laws of Uganda, with a mandate of overseeing, guiding and coordinating all aspects of agricultural research and undertaking, through its constituent public agricultural research institutes (PARIs), research in all aspects of agriculture including crops, horticulture, oil palm, livestock, fisheries, forestry, agro-machinery, natural resources and socio-economic issues in the National Agricultural Research System of Uganda.
Hon. Linda Auma, Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, says they are carrying on the campaign across the country and encouraging communities even in the north to take part in coffee growing.
Hon Linda who is also warning nessery operators against bad seedlings are urging the coffee farmers to embrace the new fast growing coffee varieties.