Uganda’s backbone awaits hand of the agro-surgeon

Certainly, the sun will always shine even behind that nimbus cloud, so time never stands still. Every small beginning has an ending, big or small and so is the cost that she bears.

Education on winning battles saw them deploying the best attack and defensive techniques, a few men tasting greatness, with many more still dreaming, in the night that stretches long enough into the sun’s rays.

Uganda’s backbone still suffers the same technologically curable communicable pests and diseases, that are happily ever after making up in our gardens, laying to waste the labour of the long-serving Farmer, and dining on everything crop, yet maintaining their class of the weeds.

Ooh, what an army of worms! No wonder they have no backbones. Maybe the times have sent them to open the eyes of they that hold the key to freedom of the enslaved farmers who, might be blaming their tools for nothing.

And now that farmers have learned to spray without missing, the pests have also learnt to shower, hide and feed without dying and the diseases just can’t help it, but hum to the rhythm of the pump. Surely, even the little harvest does not taste on a stream of tears, a running nose, weary heart, worn out hands, and a stuck brain, not from lack of choices, but a winning technique locked up for exploration, for example, the Genetically Engineered BT maize.

Dear Agro-Surgeon, Uganda’s backbone has more discs falling off on her way uphill in her ambulance registration number Parliament that is hitting deep potholes of activists that think they won’t be comfortable with the fast-smooth drive when the National Biosafety Act 2018 gear is engaged.

Your engine has continuously been serviced by the scientists at the research centres and will whole-heartedly continue doing so if the drivers heed their advice and scientific counsel just to weigh down that cost of living.

Your hungry and angry Farmer is continuously fighting a losing battle against the-well fed stronger and healthier armyworms and diseases, for they have continuously succumbed to food insecurity and malnutrition because of climate change and no change in our techniques on the land that feeds us by sun and now less fertile soils grown.

For our own dear land, may the Biosafety Bill that now lies in Parliament be passed.

Andrew Ibanda Waiswa,
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