Uganda: There is wealth in vegetables

In yet another bid to eliminate poverty among the poor, the Vice President, Prof. Gilbert Bukenya, has gone into organic vegetable farming with the aim of encouraging the peri-urban youth to take up the initiative for better livelihoods.

Bukenya who is presently experimenting on 18 different types and varieties of vegetables on a 16 by 16 meter piece of land says one can earn up to sh3m from growing vegetables per season on that size of land.

"You can earn up to sh3.5m per season by growing lettuce and about sh12m per year," Bukenya said as he worked on his experimental farm in Lwantama, Kakiri over the weekend.

The professor of human medicine is experimenting on cabbage varieties of red cabbage, globe master, Baraka F1, F2 and F3 and Chinese cabbage. He is also experimenting on lettuce, Swiss chard, squash, radish, cauliflower, chill, okra, bugga, sukuma wiiki, onions and tomatoes.



Source: allafrica.com

Publication date: 7/3/2009

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