Seeds of Poverty as Disease attack Maize in Kween District.

Our misfortunes never end. There is every attempt to improve the welfare of people in the country and one of the key avenues of self-employment is agricultural production. Farmers because they do not add value, they never get the full benefit of what they produce. Recently, there was an article that said that German exported coffee in worthy billions of dollars yet it doesn’t produce coffee. For the third world countries that produce coffee, because they do not add value, they cannot earn as much as the Germans who export it. Maize production in Uganda is wide spread throughout the country both as a cash crop and a food crop. Most ordinary farmers produce for self-consumption and sell the excess. You can never be wealthy producing maize. Now a maize disease is ravaging through the country. Recently it was in one part of the country, now it is another. These are the seeds of poverty. As they say, from the frying pan, to the fire.