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President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has said that the government will have to plan for massive production after the success of the Parish Development Model (PDM) in many parts of the country.
The President made the remarks in Nakapiripirit on Tuesday after visiting Lokong Emmanuel Losike, a piggery farmer in Kakomokwee Village, Loregae sub-county.
The President is in Karamoja Sub-Region in continuation of his performance assessment tour of the PDM, a program that is intended to increase household incomes and improve the quality of life of Ugandans by transitioning subsistence-level households into the money economy.
He commended the Karamojong for abandoning cattle rustling to embrace peace and actively engage in a program intended to get them out of poverty.
According to the President, the PDM plan was to assist people who don’t have any income to start earning, and he was happy to see that the people of Karamoja are now waking up to embrace the program, especially knowing that as real livestock keepers, fencing off where animals stay protects them against diseases.
Earlier the President emphasized that it’s very easy for people to get out of poverty in Uganda due to the favorable environment and good government policies and programs.
Visiting Mr. Amos Rhembuss, one of the PDM beneficiaries and a livestock farmer in Amudat District, President Museveni also expressed gratitude to the people in the area for listening to the National Resistance Movement (NRM) message of peace.
President Museveni further assured the people of Amudat that the government will continue empowering them to fight poverty and improve their livelihoods through different programs like the PDM.
