By Jonex Babulya,
Dr. Joseph Katswera, the Kasese District Natural Resources officer has partly blamed low crop production to excessive application of pesticides that have chased away bees that pollinate flowers.
Addressing a People and Nature stakeholders’ dialogue meeting at Give a Goat Africa in Rwesororo Village in Kisinga subcounty in Kasese District yesterday, Dr. Katswera was quick to warn the local community that crop production was likely to lower each season should they maintain applying chemicals that chess away pollinators and kill living organisms that support crop production. Dr. Katswera speaking…
Lt. Maate Magwara, the Kasese Deputy Resident District Commissioner in charge of Bukonzo County, called for concerted efforts against actions that damage the environment but plant trees to guarantee the community’s conducive environment, firewood quantities, protection of the ecosystems, herbal medicine, controlled with and rain water flow that have seasonally culminated into disasters. Lt. Magwara speaking…
Mr. Jackson Mumbere, the project director for Rwenzori Mountain, called for a freeze to land conflicts, as well as protecting nature for purposes of having an improved and habitable environment. END