In 2011, the Ministry of Works and Transport through a donation worth 1.9billion shillings from the Lake Victoria Environment Management Project-LAVEMP, undertook to construct a permanent market in Lukaya town council for hundreds of roadside vendors who operate from the area.
Moses Ssempala the LCI Chairperson of Bulingo; a village next to the rice estate says the Chinese are already luring residents in the area to sell off their pieces of land for rice growing.
