keffa Mafumo, a state house official and aspiring MP for Butiru county, on 24th March, 2025, has gives tips on Food Systems Resilience to the people of Butiru Town Council, in Manafwa District.
Keffa made the call during the the distributes Maize seeds to the locals in the constituency.
"Manafwa is unique, most especially our cositituency Butiru and should have no problem with food. We have a high altitude near the hills. Food grows easily on our soil and can be the center for food production. If there is any problem in food production, it is due to lack of sensitization,” -said Keffa
Keffa also advised residents to embrace government programs like the presidential initiative known as the PDM as well as telling them to use natural waters to irrigate crops.
“Irrigation is a challenge in the dry season we are now lucky that rain is back let us use this chance to plant enough food, I know that We are also faced with the challenge of bad farming practices. Good farming practices yield more. These include; making contours, spacing, use of wind breakers and making trenches,” Mafumo explained.
Mafumo added that Ugandan farmers were faced with challenges of pests and parasites on crops, post-harvest/storage problems, lack of proper supervision enforcement, lack of sensitization, environmental degradation, land fragmentation, challenges of enabling infrastructure, lack of sufficient electricity, lack of enough water for irrigation, low access to telecommunication and a challenge of market for the produce, which he said could be history incase he is elected to represent them in parliament in 2026.
He further pledged to lobby more items from Government incase elected in parliament in 2026.
"I seat in state house next to President M7, people who love their regions are doing too much of lobbying and they are given, you see even these seedlings are from the government and they've existed ever since this Government captured power. I am here asking for you to vote me to parliament so that we do more lobbying than giving empty promises" - Keffa.
Keffa donated over 1,600 Kgs of Maize seeds to different parishes in Butiru Town Council and is expected to distribute more in all sub-counties in Butiru County.
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