SaLone spends $15M to import onions – Agric minister

Thursday May 05, 2016

The Minister of Agriculture Forestry and Food Security (MAFFS), Professor Patrick Monty Jones has recently disclosed that government is spending about fifteen million dollars ($15M) on the importation of onions.
Because of this, he went on, his ministry has brought in five metric tons of assorted vegetables which should include onions and they want to provide this because the country is spending “$15M dollars to import onions, something that we can grow. We cultivate onions in six districts, so we are going to make sure that these seeds get to the farmers and we increase production”.
The Agriculture Minister said they want to increase agricultural production and productivity and enhance commercial agriculture development and to able to do that they would want to do it in the near future.

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