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Uganda elites and Museveni's drip irrigation - A snake in the pot

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So, I have been following His excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni's demonstration-farming efforts in Luweero. The president has been encouraging Ugandan farmers (most of them are peasants by the way), to adopt the method of irrigation where used plastic water bottles are filled with water and a hole is drilled in the bottom to drip-irrigate each plant, i.e A water bottle per plant. I am lucky that I grew up in a rural village and at the same time had access to an elitist education (afforded of course by our boarding school culture and the fact that my parents had the means). When we had holidays from boarding school, many of my friends from the elitist school i attended, went to Kampala for holidays. A good number of them spent their holidays taking extra lessons ( we used to call it coaching) from places like Makerere University (anybody remember the famous professor Lugujo?). While my friends were busy at this, my father would send us to his plantations to plant/weed/harverst m