Practice Four- Acre Model Plan For Better Yields – Students Advised

Practice Four- Acre Model Plan For Better Yields – Students Advised

Over 200 schools girls from Tororo Girls School (TGS) under their umbrella association, Young Farmers Association, were on Friday, taken on a guided tour of the Kawumu Presidential Demonstration Farm in Luweero district.

Tororo Girls School students in the coffee plantation at the Presidential Demonstration farm

The delegation of students and teachers who were led to the farm by the school’s Head Teacher, Madam Beatrice Akware, visited the farm purposely to acquire knowledge and skills on the best farming practices.

The delegation comprised of students from Senior one to Senior six especially those taking Agriculture as a subject. They were received by the Farm Manager, Mr. Geoffrey Gandugga, at 1pm and there after taken on a guided tour of the farm.

Tororo Girls School students tour cabbage garden at the Presidential Demonstration farm

Among the many enterprises at the farm which the students visited were a fish farm; a green house with a nursery bed, a tomato garden, cabbage farm, pasture, poultry keeping; Dairy farming; banana, coffee and mango plantations and pineapple garden.

Mr. Gandugga told the students and their teachers that much as they had toured all the enterprises at the farm, they emphasise the four- acre model that the President speaks about passionately especially for people with small pieces of land.

Tororo Girls School students tour the fish ponds at the Presidential Demonstration farm

“As we demonstrate, we emphasise enterprise selection under the four- acre model plan,” Mr. Gandugga said.

The Private Secretary to H.E the President in Charge of Youth Affairs, Ms. Hellen Saku, said that the purpose for which demonstration farms were started was to help Ugandans realise that Agriculture is profitable and that one can get rich through Agriculture if done with a Kibalo (calculation).

“The President’s purpose for starting these demonstration farms was mainly to help Ugandans know that agriculture is very profitable. Here, we demonstrate only good agricultural practices. We thank God that you have come here,” Ms. Saku said.

“President Museveni was inspired by his love for development. He saw this some time back and started spreading the gospel. He wanted us to open our eyes and widen our thinking towards Agriculture. He wanted to change our mindset towards Agriculture,” Mr. Gandugga said.

The TGS Headteacher, Mrs. Beatrice Akware, commended President Museveni for his visionary leadership and for the opportunity he gave the school to visit the farm.

“We are happy that we are here. In a special way, we want to thank the President for giving us this opportunity as Tororo Girls School. Not every one comes here,” she said.

She added: “We have gone back totally transformed and we promise to put all we have learnt in practice. We are very grateful for having given this opportunity.”

President Museveni set up regional Presidential Demonstration farms in Kawumu-Luweero, Kityerera in Mayuge, Barlegi in Otuke and Arua, among others.

These farms demonstrate basic agricultural practices that farmers can adopt to enhance productivity on their farms.

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