Gulu district Chairman Martin Ojara Mapenduzi has urged fresh university graduates to embrace agriculture instead instead of scrambling for the few white collar jobs.
Mapenduzi was last week speaking to seven graduates of Ndejje University at World Vision Uganda offices in Gulu.
The Gulu district Chairman told the graduates that despite attaining a university degree, they should not under look farming.
About 80 per cent of Ugandans are engaged in subsistence farming.
Mapenduzi who said he is a small scale farmer told the graduates that agriculture can solve the high rates of unemployment in the country as not all university graduates can be get the few available white collar jobs.
The Gulu district Chairman cited garlic growing and piggery as some of the lucrative small scale farming activities the youth can engage in. He said he earns between 800,000 to 900,000 shillings from his small garlic garden.
Harriet Aloyo Nyeko, the Program Manager World Vision Gulu area Development Program urged the graduates to develop a spirit of voluntarism in order to assist those in need.
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Lok ada watwero kwo i kom ngom matye ni. Wel jami makicato gang obed pat ki jami ma kicwalogi i lobo tim. Myero kiyub wang lobo me nenno jami ma lurok gwaro ci gitero ka catto woko kun nongo pe guculu obalkare pa boma i Acoli.
Wan pe lupit opego dok i kare macon nongo bene pe wacomo opego kulu. Wapito dyegi, rommi, dyangi, gweni. Opego gin akwera bot kaka Acoli (Lwo). Wan jo Icarael macol anywalli. Muni aye gubino gubedo ka nekko te kwarowa. Muni gubedo ka lokko nying lutino ducu odok i leb munu me rwenynyo kaka. Nying ducu ma nongo yam tye i Acoli onongo nying jo Icarael keken ci kombeddi dong tye ka rwenyo woko do. Cikwa ki kwerwa en aye gin ma yam kimiyo bot Muca ki lunebi macon. Pat ki pwony me dini bwola ma lurok okelo lacen kara gubino ka kwallo kwor.
Labolle wan pe waworo cal gin mo macalo Lacwec – meno kwerwa. Kwer tye mapol ma myero kicak cokko ki i dog ludito Acoli. Diniwa ki kome aye dini pa jo Icarael macon. Man aye gin ma myero kicak poyo iye wi lwak pien lumerok ngeyo wan ento pol pa wan kombeddi pe wangeyo komwa pi ayelayela mubedo ka timme.