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Farmers in Acholi Sub-region encouraged to grow perennial crops to boost house hold incomes

01 February, 2024
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Chief Justice Alfonse Chigamoi Owiny-Dollo has encouraged farmers in the Acholi Sub-region to switch to growing perennial crops that are profitable instead of engaging in growing cotton.


Justice Owiny-Dollo says the majority of farmers in the Sub-region grow cotton whose market price is so low and can't remove them from the poverty situation they are witnessing.

He said that a farmer earns only between 500,000 Shillings to 700,000 Shillings from an acre of land yet another farmer who is growing coffee on the same size of land earns about 15 million shillings.

Justice Owiny-Dollo was speaking during a radio talk show on Rupiny FM in Gulu City on their current initiative of restoring the lost glory of Acholi. He said there is a need for farmers to embrace perennial crops like coffee which are planted once but harvested for several years and sold at high prices in the market.

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