Tobacco Not for Uganda's Small-Scale Farmers

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 11/04/2009

Uganda's information minister, Kabakumba Masiko, has told the people of Bunyoro to stop growing tobacco because it is no longer a profitable venture, according to a New Vision story. She said some people had grown tobacco for several years in her Bujenje constituency in the Masindi district, but that they had remained poor. Masiko was opening a three-day agricultural exhibition organised by the Hoima Caritas Development Organisation, an arm of the Hoima Catholic Diocese, at the Boma show grounds in Hoima on Thursday. The minister said that tobacco growing could be carried out successfully only by farmers with large amounts of land, and urged those with little land to embark on a number of mixed enterprises. Enditem