{UAH} Hon. Emelia Kyambadde- The Swede have fresh peas all year round - how?
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Eddie
What I said about agriculture development is what we have never done in Uganda and Africa at large.
Europe is the largest importer of Africa's raw produce: sugar, tobacco, tea, cocoa, beef (Ethiopian), groundnuts, rubber etc all items required for soldiers on battle front - those items are converted into nice products, normally in peace time exported to Africa for hard cash. There was opium too.
Let me repeat
a. The entire European Agricultural Production System is based on a war time production system. East European countries including Russia took time to fully grasp this system. Africa doesn't get it at all.
b. The above requires the state to buy the bulk of the agro-produce and store it (Dry and Cold Storage Facilities) to be able to feed the population of each any European nation's population for not less than six month. The surplus is donated or turned into animal feed or dumped on typical Africa markets!
c. Point b, is based on long time collected data converted into "agricultural production arithmetic - so each farm has to hand in data of whatever they have produced for what in economics is baid off through agriculture subsidies. So given amount of agro-produce has to be produced and this is not a matter of debate/political discussin but rather of national security issue. Silos and cellars have to be filled. Basically this has nothing to do with pure economics proper (!) but rather security to make food stuffs or agro produce reach the largest population.
d. For the above reasons all European Union countries have a form state food /agroproduce processing unit or units. A vital ingredient to guarantee food sustainability in peace as well as wartime periods. You might wish to ask why would USA for example have acres and acres of cotton farm in California, maize in Texas and buy all Irish potatoes to normally dump in the pacific ocean. Or what would Canada benefit from year on year production of mountains of wheat?
e. Example Banyankole will never export meat unless - for a period of three to six consecutive months; buy, slaughter, store, and process would be mountains of meat for export. And THIS is based on production quater of each person/ or farm involved. Failure to meet the production level you loose the subsidy!! and no single European farmer can afford such terrible mistake.
And there is an issue of logistics. Train wagons transporting this produce are state or coopertive owned.
f. Conclusively - if Uganda and the rest of Africa want to become exporters of foodstuffs so exotic that has not been on the world market we will have to have agricultural subsidies buy off farmers produce, store as we look for markets to export - good enough there are markets for this food.
BwanikaCurrently uganda has no enough milk to make ghee to feed 15000 people on a daily basis! What do you do into such a situation?
Uganda can raise 4 million dollars (12 billion shillings) to buy fresh food stuffs, animal and foul meat, cereals to meet Arab, European need for food stuffs.
These cellars I wrote about below, should be managed by either Europeans or Arabs who are already in this trade. Solar powered and can sustain a wartime population of 35 million people with food and diet provisions.In fact food traders in Kampala should buy their food stuffs from these mega huge cold facilities - does it make sense?But even then, we need huge transport planes (LOGISTICS) and Refrigated Transport Trucks/railway wagons (trans ocean) that will transport these mountain of food stuffs accumulated in a period of three to six month to possible market destinations in just 24 hours.
Last time, I argued government to negotiate with Europe's big super markets: Tesco, ICA, Max, Salisbury etc to set shop/ware houses into Europe and Arab countries. Peas, French Beans, Fresh Maize, cucumber, carrots, mushrooms, are ready in three month and processing takes only a few hours - once farmers can be market garauntee many people will run back to villages and commerical farming will start seriously.
The problem as usual Africa do not use scientific knowledge to do certain things let us use military doctrine instead.Dan Bwanika <bulemezi@gmail.com> wrote:Why is Denmark and some small countries in Europe are net exporter of food stuffs produced in three month?
Many Ugandans have tried to export mountains of meat and other food stuffs which Uganda has but can't produce in time. The logic is a simple. Europe does not have million acres land.
Uganda should adopt a war time food production strategy.
Most European countries during the 1st and 2nd world war had a problem of feeding millions of combatants around the world and the starving population at home. The result was a thoroughly developed production time, logistics and food technologies. Most European cities have cellars full foodstuffs.These mountains of can go on for over a period of six months.
Copenhagen the city of Denmark, is one city with food cellars that can feed its population for a period six months in roll. Uganda has got no single cold food storage facility since God blessed us with plenty.
Nakasongola is ideal – and there is sunshine for solar panels. Let us dig underground and government set up this cold storage facility for million tonnes of fresh meat (beef, goat, foul), milk, cheese, butter, peas, processed spinach, cabbages , cumbers, carrots and Irish potatoes .
Once government buys enough to fill up these cellars – Uganda will be able to export any amount of food either to Arab or European countries!
While in Sweden come six month winter time I always hard on my table fresh maize, peas, cabbages, peas, spinach, broccoli you name it – always and meat was always there too.
Bwanika
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