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Uganda needs to open up more agricultural universities and tailor the studies in line with the country’s needs,a South African professor said.
Prof Godwell Nhamo, the chief researcher and lecturer at the University of South Africa (UNISA), says economies that are dependent on agriculture cannot talk of fighting poverty when they do not invest in agriculture.
“If you want to eradicate poverty, you must invest in agriculture and think agriculture. Uganda, and the African continent at large, needs typical agricultural universities and the whole university curriculum needs to be disrupted,” Prof Nhamo said.
Available reports indicate that apart from faculties and agricultural colleges, there are very few typical agricultural universities in the region. In East Africa, for example, the only typical agricultural university is the Sokoine University of Agriculture in Tanzania.
Uganda has Bukalasa Agricultural College and in Kenya there is now Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology.Prof Nhamo was speaking during a training programme on promoting agriculture and climate trade linkages in the East African Community in Uganda recently.
The agricultural sector is the backbone for the Uganda economy,and it is necessary for Uganda to develop agriculture.
