• Allocate at least 11% of the national budget to Agriculture, Water and Environment 
• Establish an Agricultural Development Bank to finance farmers with affordable and handy credit services 
• Increase investment in the mechanization of agriculture to ensure suitable, reliable and affordable mechanization and energy supplies, amongst others 
• Create links between farmers and strategic markets, both local and international 
• Ensure farmers have access to quality inputs and agricultural extension services
• Ensure supply of appropriate knowledge, information, and skills to users 
• Develop and maintain community agricultural schools/institutes to enable continuous development of the farmers 
• Set up cooperatives right from grass root level to facilitate easy mobilization of farmers 
• Revive the Uganda Cooperative Bank to extend financial services to cooperative societies. 
• Invest in research and development in agriculture to enhance productivity and quality 
• Promote value addition of agricultural produce and products by developing and supporting agro-processing initiatives including those at local community level like providing milk coolers, rice hullers, maize mills, etc
• Establish efficient and effective water management systems and irrigation systems across the country including constructing boreholes and dams 
• Develop and maintain under public private partnership (PPP) arrangement national food reserves and warehouses across the country 
• Drastically reduce post harvest losses 
• Strengthening strategic food and cash reserves to respond to food shortages occasioned by periodic prolonged droughts or other disasters/emergencies
• Strengthening early warning systems to facilitate advanced and proactive responses to disasters and emergencies with food and nutrition security implications
• Ensure that every Ugandan has access to clean and safe drinking water 
• Plan and implement provision of nation-wide sanitation services even in rural and slummy areas 
• Promote and support reforestation and afforestation by extending financial support and providing tree seedlings, cuttings and other planting materialsthrough community cooperative societies to all communities across the country
• Protect wetlands and other conservation areas 
• Regulate the cutting of trees and protect forests and forest reserves 
• Promote and support the production of improved cooking stoves for rural communities and for urban communities promote the use of electricity, gas and solar as sources of energy.

• Increase the budget allocation to the agricultural sector from the current 3 percent to 10 percent within the first three years of the FDC led government.
• Dedicate atleast 2 percent of the agricultural budget towards funding agricultural Research and Development (R & D) as the engine that drives agricultural productivity. Modern regional agricultural farm institutes will be established as a backbone for regional agricultural Research and Development.
• Give priority to reviving and strengthening agricultural co-operatives as fully owned citizens’ organizations. 
• Establish and fully capitalize a National Bank for Agricultural (NBA) as the epicenter for agricultural finance delivery. Through this facility, agricultural financing will be made affordable and widely accessible through appropriate outreach programmes. To ensure efficiency, the NBA will be managed through a public-privatepartnership arrangement.
• Establish a tractor and animal traction hire scheme in partnership with the private sector with the commitment to provide access to agricultural mechanization services. Funding for research will also target the development of technologies targeted at modernizing and commercializing agriculture in parts of the country with challenging terrain.
• Establish, through the NBA, a special financing facility to boost the growth of agro-processing industries and to implement a food security programme for the country.
• Establish a National Land Development Agency (NLDA) to champion strategic utilization of land resources in agricultural development, including through public private partnerships.

• Increase the budgetary allocation for Agriculture from the current 3% to 10% within 5 years as required by the Maputo Declaration.
• Re-establish co-operatives all over the country. 
• Secure markets for traditional cash crops as well as encourage non-traditional cash crops farming. 
• Re-establish a national seed company to provide quality seed for various crop types. 
• Re-organise the Agricultural Extension System run by Agriculture professionals. 
• Increase support to Research and Development. 
• Enforce and promote the adherence to agricultural product standards. 
• Strengthen the capacity of Uganda National Bureau of Standards to effectively monitor and enforce the standardization of agricultural inputs and outputs. 
• Provide favourable agriculture financing tied to production of cash crops. 
• Our government will make agricultural inputs more affordable and accessible. 
• Support cattle farmer cooperatives in improving  market construction, slaughter slabs, sheds and rehabilitate key milk collection centers. A computerized information management system will be installed to track the movement of animals sold and meat in order to better position our products for export. 
• Promote irrigation through a framework for the supply, utilization and management of water for agricultural production including water harvesting. 
• Establish a food storage system to ensure that there  are enough food reserves to combat hunger in times of drought and/or famine. 

• Increase budget allocation to Agriculture Sector from 2.5% to 15% for the next five years.
• Create two line-ministries to oversee the Agricultural sector:
  - Ministry of Animal industry, Fisheries and Game industries
  - Ministry of Crop Resources and Forestry.
• Establish a land fund to provide for compensation of ‘Kibanja’ landlords to eliminate double ownership of land and to enable Government to survey all the land in Uganda and give land titles to rightful owners of the land in order to eliminate land conflicts.
• Secure tractors at sub counties and give two oxen-plough animals and plough equipment per family in areas where they are used (Teso, Lango, Acholi, West Nile, and Rwenzori).
• Establish a National Bank of Agriculture to avail affordable credit to farmers.
• Establish a National Agricultural Marketing Authority responsible for promotion, supervision, and regulation of agricultural product markets and improve both market access and entry into international markets.
• Re-introduce cooperative unions as means of organizing farmers into viable groups of production and marketing.
• Provide for funds to establish Agro-based industries in rural areas for value addition and job creation.
• Establish a National Food Storage System to reduce post harvest losses and improve market access.
• Transform agriculture from rain dependency to irrigation based and ensure production all year round. Provide for a special fund under agriculture to expand irrigation schemes and adopt new technologies.
• Boost commercial fish farming by: capacity building at higher institutions of learning and at Government-owned demonstration centers in each district; invest in Local high quality fish feed plants and fish gear including fish cages; map and provide standard cage fish farming practices for increased natural water productivity and drive all categories of fish farmers to centrally produce for target markets.
• Revamp the Uganda seeds company and deploy heavy invest into agricultural research to ensure that our farmers have access improved seeds and technologies. Appropriate animal breeds will be introduced in different agricultural zones as means of improving production and productivity.
• Establish Rural Transformation Agricultural Centers on a minimum of 500 acres per sub country as centers of learning, markets, information, value addition and agricultural inputs.

• Four-Acre Land Model: Mobilise and support small scale farmers along the four-acre model concept where: one acre is dedicated to a perennial cash crop such as coffee, tea and cocoa. One acre is dedicated to fruits, one acre is dedicated to pasture for dairy cattle for daily income and one acre is dedicated to growing of food for food security and high value crops such as vegetables. Each of the selected homesteads for the four-acre model will be supported to start poultry and for non-Muslims piggery projects in their back yard. Under this plan, a homestead will, for example, earn sh7m-10m from an acre of coffee, about sh10m from an acre of fruits, about sh3m from dairy farming, plus earnings from poultry and piggery, which will add up to a gross income of about sh25m per year or $7,200. Thus, such a household will have moved to a middle-income status. Homesteads with less than four acres will be supported to become food secure and engage in high-value crops like horticulture and rearing livestock like poultry, zero-grazing diary, apiary and piggery for non-Muslims. The four-acre model complemented by other Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) initiatives involving systematic distribution of improved seeds, planting and breeding materials, the single spine extension services, improved post-harvest handling storage and value addition will be the main strategy for commercialising and transforming small-holder and peasant agriculture in the country.
• In order to transform peasant agriculture to commercial, co-ordinate the OWC and also follow the production value chain from the farmers to the final consumer. 
• Under OWC, we will restructure government so that all the state agencies involved in the production chain are co-ordinated and linked with the private sector. We will put in place a mechanism to ensure that all poverty alleviationrelated programmes are well co-ordinated to ensure that services reach the intended beneficiaries.
• Our investment in agriculture will be aimed at increasing exports of specific commodities such as: Coffee from the current 3.6 million bags (60kg) to 6 million bags; maize – from the current 185,000 metric tonnes to 1.5 million metric tonnes; tea – from 65,000 metric tonnes to 130,000 metric tonnes; and Beans – from 32,000 metric tonnes to 500,000 metric tonnes 
• Support individuals and companies, including the Uganda Prison Services, in seed production, and other planting materials in order to meet the demand for seeds, which is increasing as more homesteads transform from subsistence to commercial agriculture. In addition a mechanism for the certification of producers of seeds, planting material and breeders will be established. 
• Support companies and individuals in livestock breeding in order to meet the demand for dairy products, beef, poultry and piggery. 
• Promote use of manure, organic fertilisers, inorganic fertilisers and appropriate irrigation technology to beat climate change challenges. 
• Promote mechanisation through availing machinery for hire at affordable rates, for bush clearing, ploughing, harrowing, planting, harvesting and making silage and hay to make it easy for medium and large-scale farming. As part of agriculture mechanisation 40 tractors and implement will be delivered before the end of FY 2015/2016. These will be given to organised farmers in 10 districts to get tractors. More 50 tractors will be available in FY 2016/2017. A hire service for the tractors is being worked out.
• Invest in disease and pest control and also harmonise the levels of pesticides and acaricides acceptable in international markets. 
• Support research institutions carrying out research in agriculture together with other scientists at universities. 
• Continue with the Agricultural Finance Credit scheme operated through commercial banks with support from the Government with a view of keeping interest rates low. Furthermore, partner with some microfinance institutions to reach out to more farmers. Also, work with the insurance sector to design measures that ease insurance in agriculture in order to increase agriculture financing and sensitise farmers on this undertaking. 
• Improve the quality of agricultural produce by investing in agricultural marketing infrastructure such as storage facilities. In particular, we will collaborate with the private sector to ensure that there are enough well equipped silos in the cereal-growing areas. Encourage district councils to pass by-laws that discourage drying of produce on open grounds. Farmers will be educated on the best practices in post-harvest handling to ensure that cereals like maize have the right moisture content required in the market. 
• Put in place measures to ensure that Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) are domesticated and complied with to attain internationally acceptable standards of our products.
• Invest in value-addition. Will will continue to invest in value-addition by completing the fruit factory in Soroti and setting up other value addition factories for products where response from the private sector is not forthcoming.
• Self-sufficiency in rice production. Rice is now a key stable foodstuff in the country. However, we are not producing enough for the local market. We continue to import rice yet we can produce it locally. This trend must be stopped because it affects the county’s food security. In order to make the country self-sufficient in rice production; first, introduce irrigation schemes like Doho which are meant for rice production and concentrate on rice production. Secondly, promote rice production in the areas that are suitable for rice production. Thirdly, ensure the right seeds are provided to the rice growing areas. 
• Promote cotton growing to sustain the country’s textile industry needs, including supporting the acquisition of ginning equipment by farmer cooperatives so as to increase earnings from cotton by the farmer. 
• Promote cassava production in all parts of the country and seek investors to establish factories for value addition and production of cassava-related products.
• In order to revive the fish industry, we will create a regulatory body, which will among others, be responsible for policing the lakes against illegal fishing, to avoid overfishing, ensuring breeding sites are protected and restocking fish in all water bodies. 
• Build two tea factories in Kabale and Kisoro. 

The NRM is convinced that the above measures will guarantee the transformation of agriculture from subsistence to commercial. This will lead to increased incomes in the rural areas and create opportunities for manufacturing and services sectors to grow due to increased demand of goods and services.