The Minister for Agriculture, Frank Tumwebaze has hailed beer company, Uganda Breweries Limited for creating market for local agricultural products that are sold by farmers to the company as raw materials.
The agriculture minister was today speaking during a forum for farmers hosted by Uganda Breweries Limited to discuss the potential to scale up farming to supplement government efforts to see manufacturers embrace full sourcing of raw materials they use in their production processes locally.
The forum organized at Hotel Africana in Kampala and ran under the theme “Agriculture as an Enabler to the Buy Uganda Build Uganda Agenda” brought together stakeholders from government, URA, farmers unions and the Private Sector Foundation.
Tumwebaze noted that by buying raw materials from local farmers, the beer company is in a way supporting government realize one of its objectives in the National Development Plan III aimed at creating value addition to strengthen the private sector capacity to drive growth and create jobs.”
The UBL Managing Director, Andrew Kilonzo said the beer company which already sources over 95% of its raw materials locally will soon scale up to source 100% of produce in Uganda. END