The President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has urged delegates of the African Union Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) Kampala summit 2025 to embrace the four-ace model farming strategy to enhance food security in Africa if they are to achieve goal 2063.
Museveni made the appeal on January 11, 2025, at Speke Resort Munyonyo while addressing heads of state and ministers of the CAADP summit comprising of 43 member states.
“In commercializing agriculture, use the strategy of intensive agriculture for families with acres or less and extensive agriculture for families with bigger lands,” Museveni said.
Museveni stressed the importance of the commercialization of agriculture through the 4-acre model but also encouraged those with ample land to do intensive farming to increase household income.
“With intensive agriculture, you select high-value enterprises that, though you do them on a small scale, you get good family income. With extensive agriculture, you can adopt low-value crops, which, when you do on a big scale, you get good income for the family.
President Museveni also talked about the issue of favorable competition among African states and emphasized the need for partner states to embrace healthy competition.
“However, production is disrupted when, in some years, some of the brother countries say they have bumper crops and delicense Ugandan products. Why do you delicense a product from a brother country? If you have a bumper crop, let the products compete,” Museveni added.
The CAADP Kampala summit 2025 ends on January 11, 2025, with the adaptation of a 10-year strategic action plan 2025-2036 with key emphasis on enhancing food storage in Africa.
The summit is being attended by delegates from 43 African Union member states and has already registered over 800 delegates in physical attendance and many others attending online.
