President Museveni Meets With UK Trade Envoy

Posted by: Kyeyune Andrew Jonathan in Uganda news April 16, 2022

On Good Friday, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni held a meeting with the United Kingdom Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Uganda His Excellency Lord Popat. The meeting took place at State Lodge Nakasero in Kampala.

In the meeting, they discussed issues of mutual interest between Uganda and the United Kingdom. The key focus was Health, Investment, Energy, Transport and Agriculture.

The United Kingdom is the single largest foreign funder of Agriculture in Uganda. It apparently aims at helping Ugandans transform from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture.

President Yoweri Museveni also met the same Trade Envoy sometime in November 2021. He said that Ugandans can produce anything as long as they organize and guide them.

“We can produce any agro-product as long as the people are mobilized. Our people have the capacity to produce a lot of coffee and fruits on small pieces of land. We have sensitized them in the production of various high-value products on small acreages. A small-scale farmer can generate up to Ush 18 million (US $ 5,000) per acre of coffee per year,” he said.

The President was speaking during a meeting with the visiting British Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Uganda, Rwanda and Democratic Republic of Congo, Lord Dolar Popat at State House, Entebbe.

The President and his guests also discussed a wide range of issues with the main focus on developing the export of agro-products to Britain.

He assured them that the Uganda Government would fully commit towards ensuring high-quality agro-products for export.

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