“Seriously?
Modernized agriculture?
Save for the machinery.
But with what it comes along with?
Like use of pesticides, artificial fertilizers and genetically modified crops?
Do we have the knowledge of both long-term and short-term negative effects that these three cause, before we can even talk about “underutilization of land by subsistence farmers” that government is claiming to have under the spotlight?
How would you define the act of producing to sell and buy after?
Remember the farmer will be buying at the cost of a value-added product.
And what is “value-added?”
Are we talking about the primary producer buying “processed products and brand names?”
Do we know what is in processed food products anyway?
These are questions I am putting forward as an organic farmer and advocate for the total revival, embrace and protection of organic farming in Uganda. Whether for large scale or small scale, local consumption or industrialization purposes!
If i may ask, was analysis done before and after the so called NAADS Program that the government initiated and implemented a few years back?”
This reaction, from Carolynne, in comment to my blog post “Modernizing Agriculture Impact on Land Use,” is a taste of the robust farming conversations on this space, including by other commentators on the same post. CLICK HERE to read the full post free.
I invite you as well to CLICK HERE and read “The Case for Public Investment in Irrigation” and the comments. A direct challenge to Prof. Ogenga Latigo’s advocacy for GMOs.
And a lot more farming conversations in this space. Search the site with using key words for what you are interested in and you will likely find my two bits on it right here and of others in comments to posts on here.
Let us engage. Join the conversation. Leave us a comment …
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