There is need to spend money on agriculture, are we spending it rightly?

In the Summit Business Review of January 4, 2014, there was an article that claimed that the Ministry of Agriculture was to spend shs 140 billion on implementing a national fertilizer strategy in Uganda. This was because government had noted that there was a need to boost the soils to improve agricultural production. When you talk about implementing a policy in government, the money normally goes to allowances. The newspaper report on NAADS indicate most of the most has gone into seminars and allowances. Seminars and allowances are indeed part of what is required to implement a policy the issue is simply how much is spent on getting actual results of the policy. According to the Summit Business Review, this expenditure was a wrong priority. Agriculture is the main stay of this economy. How should it be supported to grow. This is a question for others to contribute answers too.

Fred Muhumuza an economist with KPMG Uganda said with the Monitor of June 12, 2014 “that planning in Uganda is so scrappy as the President noted with NAADS(call it agriculture) where the bulk of money goes into workshops and seminars mostly allowances”. The President is possibly still doing more analysis and will soon add other ministries, departments and agencies of government.