{"id":3214,"date":"2019-06-20T07:23:16","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T07:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:21","slug":"how-uganda-use-of-farm-machines-feeds-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/06\/20\/how-uganda-use-of-farm-machines-feeds-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"How Uganda Use Of Farm Machines Feeds Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>By Daily Nation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With\nmild temperatures and two rainy seasons in most parts of the country that allow\nfor multiple crop harvests, investors consider Uganda\u2019s agricultural potential\namong the best in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So\nsmitten by the land was Winston Churchill that he named it the Pearl of Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A 2019\npublication by the US-based Export.Gov, which quotes figures from the UN\u2019s Food\nand Agriculture Organisation (FAO), says Uganda has the potential to feed 200\nmillion people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The\nreport notes that more than 80 per cent of the country\u2019s land is arable, but\nonly 35 per cent is under cultivation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda\nproduces a wide range of foods including coffee, tea, sugar, livestock,\npoultry, palm oil, simsim, groundnuts, cotton, tobacco, bananas, maize, beans,\ncassava, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, millet, sorghum, cocoa, fruits and\nvegetables. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/news\/How-Uganda-use-of-farm-machines-feeds-Kenya\/1056-5162636-5niojf\/index.html\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Daily Nation With mild temperatures and two rainy seasons in most parts of the country that allow for multiple crop harvests, investors consider Uganda\u2019s agricultural potential among the best&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3215,"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-3214","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\/3214","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=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}