Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero, who also serves as the Woman MP for Lira City, donated two tractors to farmers’ cooperative groups in an effort to fight family poverty and provide food security.
Dr. Aceng asserts that she is encouraging voters to engage in contemporary farming practices.
Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero delivered two new tractors to the Aburlango Cooperative groups in Lira City East Division and the Amuca Coffee Producers and Marketing Cooperative groups (A.M.C.P.M.C.S) in Lira City West Division on Monday in order to increase crop productivity.
Aceng urged cooperative society members to use the tractors to transition from subsistence to commercial farming in an effort to combat family poverty.
She urged the residents of Lango and Lira City to switch to four-acre model farming in order to escape the hand-to-mouth economy.
Aceng also urged people to stop being idle and get involved in profitable endeavours like raising cattle and chickens.
Lira City leaders were entrusted by Dr. Aceng to assist farmers in forming further cooperatives in order to increase household income.
Aceng also commended the NRM government for establishing the current stability and peace in the region, pointing out that in the past, when there was an insurgency and rebel groups in the Lango Region, peace always followed progress.
At the tractor handover, Stephen Odongo, the deputy RCC of Lira City East Division, mobilized cooperative members to use the tractor to increase their productivity in an effort to combat poverty and famine.
Odongo assigned the leaders of the two cooperative societies the duty of maintaining the tractor they were given on a regular basis and using it to better their household income and improve their quality of life.
He urged everyone to support government initiatives aimed at reducing poverty, such as YLP, EMYOOGA, and PDM, stating that their goal is to pull households out of the hand-to-mouth economy through social economic transformation.
A member of the Aburlango cooperative group named Thomas Olal was excited to welcome the tractor, saying he had been using hand hoes and occasionally hiring costly oxen.
The head of the Buralango cooperative groups, Isaac Olet, thanked Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng for her tractor support and added that the new tractor will increase their output.
