{"id":2876,"date":"2019-06-03T08:29:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T08:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=2876"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:19","slug":"uganda-defies-odds-crop-volumes-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/03\/uganda-defies-odds-crop-volumes-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Defies Odds, Crop Volumes Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By JONATHAN KAMOGA<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Production of food particularly maize, beans and cassava has\nincreased over the past three financial years in Uganda, even as the region\nlives in fear of looming food insecurity due to unreliable rains and adverse\nweather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A report released by the country\u2019s Ministry of Agriculture this\npast week notes that production and export volumes of the three food crops has\nincreased over the past three financial years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The report says government prioritized maize production \u201cdue to\nits high potential for food security and contribution to export earnings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the financial year 2015\/16, Uganda\u2019s maize production stood\nat 2.26 tonnes, with the country exporting 308,911 tonnes worth $102.2 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2017\/2018, production increased to 3.2 million tonnes and the\ncountry exported 1.36 tonnes of maize worth $352.1 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Government programmes like the Operation Wealth Creation saw\nover 14.6 million bags of maize seeds distributed to both commercial and small\nscale farmers in 104 districts since 2016\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/business\/Uganda-defies-odds-crop-volumes-rise\/2560-5140956-14xk3ohz\/index.html\">Read More&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JONATHAN KAMOGA Production of food particularly maize, beans and cassava has increased over the past three financial years in Uganda, even as the region lives in fear of looming&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2877,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}