Thousands of commercial fruit farmers in Uganda’s Nwoya District are furious over the government’s failure to deliver the much-hyped Nwoya Fruit Factory. It is now four years after President Museveni directed that the project be implemented. The farmers are particularly enraged at the fact that the factory’s stalled progress means their fruit produce will continue rotting away. It is in fact an undelivered government promise that the Shs19 bln fruit factory would absorb their produce.
The facility that is meant to sit on 1,700 acres in Nwoya District, Acholi sub-region, was meant to be expedited as directed by the President in a letter addressed to the Agriculture and Finance ministries on May 10, 2018. The letter essentially tasked the ministries to expedite the matter to ensure the farmers’ heavy volume of fruits grown on vast spaces of land in the district aren’t in vain.
Source: monitor.co.ug