Residents in Rulindo District, Northern Province have complained of forced maize growing saying that their area does not support maize growing.
Residents have requested the authorities to allow them instead to continue growing sorghum.
Residents here say that the maize crop need one to be having a wide parcel with good soils that are fertile, yet sorghum crop does not need such requirements and said to bring huge harvest.
Commenting on the issue, Justus Kangwagye, Rulindo District Mayor said, “a resident that know to calculate will can grow maize, beans among others that does not take long to mature, but growing of sorghum is to miscalculate.”
Kangwagye also added that many residents who responded to get maize seeds have now multiplied and that are responding positively to the move.
He also said that Sorghum takes long to mature and that its market is currently limited as compared to maize
Rafael Murasandonyi, the District Agronomist challenged the residents saying that the same soils used to grow sorghum can be used on growing of maize as well.
Murasandonyi explained that residents in this area are not used to growing of maize and that’s why they are resistant to Sorghum.
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