The coffee seedlings worth over 500 million shillings were supplied through the Uganda Coffee Development Authority UCDA and distributed to the coffee farmers in Nebbi and Zombo districts in the 2018/2019 financial year.
The three-storeyed market structure is expected to be completed by July 2019, however, the contractor is performing far below the expected completion rate.
The debate comes barely a month after a declaration by agriculture ministry officials that the government was considering a ban on Nomadic Pastoralism in order to promote crop farming and paddock grazing in order to reduce food insecurity and increase family incomes.
According to Dr. Nguma, they had expected to carry out a mass vaccination of animals with 60,000 doses of vaccines from the Food and Agricultural Organization-FAO but the vaccines are yet to arrive.
Majbrit Holm Jakobsen, the Head of Mission at the Royal Danish Embassy of Denmark in Uganda said NURI is one of the eight programs within DANIDA portfolio allocated the largest budget allocation to deliver the desired results.
