Tumukunde pledges value addition to Bunyangabu farmers

Bunyangabu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Presidential candidate Henry Tumukunde has pledged to ensure value addition for farmers in Bunyangabu district when elected.

While addressing a campaign rally at Rubona Playground in Bunyangabu district on Monday, farmers told him that they are not benefiting from agriculture because they sell their products without any value added to them.

Godwin Kabayo, one of the farmers in the district, said that the price of bananas, which is among the major agricultural products in the district, keeps fluctuating and they do not earn much from it.

He said they would need factories to produce banana juice and manufacture other products instead of selling them in their raw form and earn very little money.