Museveni urges women leaders to spread the gospel of wealth creation.
While addressing the leaders of the National Women’s Council and the National Resistance Movement (NRM) Women’s League at State House-Entebbe, President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has challenged women leaders to preach the message of getting everyone into the money economy instead of spending time politicking.
“Every homestead must join the money economy with “ekibaaro” and those with small pieces of land should use the four-acre model of farming,” President Museveni emphasised.
The President gave the women leaders advice on how to persuade those with small plots of land to embrace the four-acre model, which entails planting coffee on the first acre, growing fruits on the second, growing food for the family on the third, and growing pasture for animals on the fourth, as well as carrying out poultry, pig farms, and fishing farming in ponds in the backyard.
“If you do this type of farming, that means we will have defeated poverty through commercial agriculture,” President Museveni stressed.
In order to visit some of the people who have listened to his wealth creation message, such as Mr. Richard Nyakana of Rwengaju, Fort Portal, and his (the President’s) neighbors in Kisozi, Gomba, he promised to arrange a tour for the women leaders.
In addition to encouraging people to use the Emyooga program and small-scale manufacturing, such as shoemaking and tailoring, among other things, to escape poverty, President Museveni told the women leaders.
In order to improve their standard of living, he also urged the leaders to push Ugandans to enter the transportation, healthcare, and educational sectors.
He went on to discuss ICT, the fourth sector, as an additional means of assisting Ugandans in improving their economic situation.
