President Museveni launches the National Food System Dialogue

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has today officially launched the National Food System Dialogue at Kololo independence grounds.

Below are the President's remarks

I launched the National Food System Dialogue at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds. This is a precursor of the Global Food Summit due here next month.  

Uganda is uniquely blessed with the ability to produce food even for the whole world once we deal with a few bottlenecks. 

I am happy that this conference puts us to task in dealing with these bottlenecks like Post-harvest problems, land fragmentation, value addition, Pests/Parasites, bad farming practices, and most importantly the issue of markets for our produce.

Recently, people had a huge yield of maize and all we could consume in Uganda was 1 million tonnes. The rest was put to waste. That is why we are pushing for market integration- a single African market.