By Vision Reporter
President Yoweri Museveni has given out 50,000 coffee seedlings to farmers from Kirasi village in Gomba and Lutunku village in Sembabule districts.
The seedlings were delivered by State House Comptroller Jane Barekye on Friday.
Barekye informed the beneficiaries that President Yoweri Museveni, who owns a farm in Kisozi, Gomba, contributed to ensuring that his neighbours in the two districts fight poverty through commercial agriculture.
“The President wants you to be rich,” she said.
The poverty alleviation project coordinator in the two districts, Sarah Nalwanga, said the Museveni will continue giving out the seedlings, until all interested farmers are covered.
“This project deals with only the President’s neighbours in the nine villages of Gomba and Sembabule. In Gomba, we have four villages and five in Sembabule, benefiting from the project,” Nalwanga said.
Residents grateful
The beneficiaries thanked the President and promised to utilise the seedlings to increase household income.
In 2011, Museveni kicked off a poverty eradication programme in Gomba and Sembabule districts, where he started by donating cows, goats, coffee seedlings, pigs, banana tissues, poultry and money, among other items to households in nine villages in the two districts.
This was to help residents generate income and improve their livelihoods.
The villages, which benefited include; Kirasi, Kisozi A, Kisozi B and Kajumiro (all in Gomba) and Obutugu, Lutunku A, Lutunku B, Kasozi and Kikuumadungu (all in Sembabule).
So far, 2,035 households have benefited from the project.
LEAD PHOTO CAPTION: Barekye (third-left) giving out coffee seedlings to farmers in Gomba and Sembabule districts donated by the President on Friday. Over 50,000 people benefited. PPU photo
