KIU, Main Campus - As efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19 intensify by the day, Uganda is focused on saving the lives and preserving the health of people.

KIU Guild President, Moses Ariiho, has urged the KIU community to heavily participate in agricultural activities, saying that the pandemic situation will, in the long run, affect food supplies in the event that coordinated steps are not immediately taken. He holds that the current public health crisis might be worsened by hunger, food insecurity, and community malnutrition. 

He adds that if each individual does something in the agricultural perspective during this shutdown, we shall have added value on the production of food in the near future.

“This doesn't only apply to those with big chunks of land, but also those with a small piece of land,” he says, "We can all be farmers be it village or town, food and animal and birds keeping.”

Furthermore, he offers that COVID-19 is a global pandemic hence the eventual export restrictions by countries to guarantee their domestic food availability and that this may worsen the country’s food deficit and increase food prices. 

Therefore, according to Ariiho, to avoid a food crisis, people should prioritise in agriculture. 

Uganda is currently standing at 55 cases of Coronavirus, and 8 cases have been discharged.