Through the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS), the Ugandan government has instituted a new strategy-nucleus farmer strategy that has boosted the planting macadamia nuts and avocado, the two emerging high-value crops in the east African nation. To boost production, to meet both national and export demands, the government included the two crops onto the high-value plants that required specialized interventions to ensure increased household incomes, and this financial year, up to 20.5 billion shillings were allocated for this purpose.
According to NAADS, since the strategy began in August 2022, up to 137,031 seedlings of macadamia have been distributed by only two nucleus farmers; 1,827 acres of farmland have been established, and over 3,000 farmers have benefited.
In Mayuge, the large-scale Musubi farm has a complete Hass avocado value chain, and has so far cultivated 1,012 acres, with a population of 170,000 trees, and the farm manager Hesbon Kirui says that since NAADS intervened, they have exceeded 250,000 seedlings sold out which wasn’t imaginable before.
Source: farmersreviewafrica.com
