President Museveni and AU Commissioner Discuss Upcoming 2025 Agricultural Summit in Kampala
President Yoweri Museveni met with African Union Commissioner for Agriculture, Ambassador Josefa Sacko, and Uganda’s Agriculture Minister Frank Tumwebaze on August 21, 2024, at State House Entebbe. The discussions focused on preparations for the 2025 Extraordinary Agricultural Summit of Heads of State and Government, to be held in Kampala.
President Yoweri Museveni in a group photo after holding discussions with African Union commissioner for agriculture, rural development, blue economy, and sustainable environment Ambassador Josefa Sacko
President Yoweri Museveni has met and held discussions with African Union commissioner for agriculture, rural development, blue economy, and sustainable environment Ambassador Josefa Sacko.
Sacko, who was accompanied by agriculture minister Frank Tumwebaze, on Wednesday, August 21, 2024, paid a courtesy call on the President at State House Entebbe.
President Museveni and his guests discussed preparations for hosting the forthcoming Extraordinary Agricultural Summit of Heads of State and Government in Kampala slated for January 2025.
Museveni expressed his profound gratitude for the opportunity to host the summit: “That is music to my ears, and I am very happy to host this summit. The potential for agriculture is huge in Africa. Uganda is really good to peg our agricultural perceptions around what we have saved, because we preserved the indigenous agriculture: cows, goats, bananas, cassava, fish, etc. Our job was to modernize and commercialise our agriculture”.
President Yoweri Museveni after holding discussions with African Union commissioner for agriculture, rural development, blue economy, and sustainable environment Ambassador Josefa Sacko.
“When you hear that people in Africa don’t have food, it’s because of colonialism and the dislocation of people from their heritage. They (Africans) start despising themselves and worshipping everything foreign. For agriculture, you are definitely at home. Uganda is the place — we have the crops of the forest, tropical savanna, and temperate crops,” the President added.
The previous AU agricultural summit was held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea in 2014. The summit shaped the action plan around the Malabo Declaration, which emphasized the prioritisation of accelerated agricultural growth and transformation for shared prosperity and improved livelihoods.
The meeting was also attended by agriculture minister permanent secretary Maj. Gen. David Kasura Kyomukama, among others.
