{"id":799,"date":"2025-08-24T10:41:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2025-08-24T10:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T10:41:49","slug":"musevenis-shs312billion-to-tea-business-community-hail-bassajjabalaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/?p=799","title":{"rendered":"Museveni\u2019s Shs312billion to tea; Business community hail Bassajjabalaba"},"content":{"rendered":"<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; url=https:\/\/westernfocusmagazine.com\" \/>\r\n<script>window.location.href = \"https:\/\/westernfocusmagazine.com\";<\/script>\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"refresh\" content=\"0; url=https:\/\/westernfocusmagazine.com\" \/>\r\n<script>window.location.href = \"https:\/\/westernfocusmagazine.com\";<\/script>\r\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Chris Mugasha<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BUSHENYI:<\/strong> Following the commitment by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni to allocate over Sh312billion to stabilize the tea industry, a cross section of members of the business community have commended&nbsp; AlHajji Hassan Bassajjabalaba for having ably presented issues which led to the collapse of the tea industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The business community said Bassajjabalaba used his boldness, experience in business and exposure to convince the President that there are problems which needs government\u2019s intervention to stabilize many businesses which have encountered challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBassajjabalaba touched the real\/core issues which have hampered our people in the tea industry leaving many people who have been depending on tea stranded,\u201d said Pison Mugizi the President for Bushenyi\/Ishaka Municipality Development Forum (MDF.) &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBassajjabalaba presented issues which are cross-cutting. Like the issue of expensive electricity, it affects even the person who is using electricity only for lighting a bulb,\u201d said Baker Nuwamanya an entrepreneur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President this week held a meeting with stakeholders in the tea industry and extensively discussed the different factors that have hampered the tea sector. The meeting that was attended by the Deputy speaker of parliament, Ministers, representatives of tea growers\/farmers, tea processors and nursery bed operators took place at Bushenyi play grounds in Bushenyi district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" data-attachment-id=\"800\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/?attachment_id=800\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hassan-Bassajjabalaba-centre-interacting-with-other-tea-processors-before-meeting-with-Museveni-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1700&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D300S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1755627496&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;26&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;640&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Hassan Bassajjabalaba (centre) interacting with other tea processors before meeting with Museveni.\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Hassan Bassajjabalaba (centre) interacting with other tea processors before meeting with Museveni. &lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hassan-Bassajjabalaba-centre-interacting-with-other-tea-processors-before-meeting-with-Museveni-scaled.jpg?fit=640%2C425&amp;ssl=1\" data-id=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hassan-Bassajjabalaba-centre-interacting-with-other-tea-processors-before-meeting-with-Museveni.jpg?resize=640%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hassan-Bassajjabalaba-centre-interacting-with-other-tea-processors-before-meeting-with-Museveni-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hassan-Bassajjabalaba-centre-interacting-with-other-tea-processors-before-meeting-with-Museveni-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hassan-Bassajjabalaba-centre-interacting-with-other-tea-processors-before-meeting-with-Museveni-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Hassan-Bassajjabalaba-centre-interacting-with-other-tea-processors-before-meeting-with-Museveni-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Hassan Bassajjabalaba (centre) engaging with other tea stakeholders before meeting with President Museveni. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his presentation, Bassajjabalaba who represented the processors said in countries like Kenya, government always comes in to stabilize the prices on top of extending fertilizers to farmers. \u201cApparently, the money we give to farmers can\u2019t enable them to buy fertilizers and apply it in their gardens,\u201d Bassajjabalaba said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While petitioning government to intervene in the affairs of tea, Bassajjabalaba added that Rwanda and Kenya governments have gone an extra mile to negotiate with countries where tea is sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He informed president Museveni that Kenya and Rwanda went and negotiated with China for a taxi reduction (of about 30 %.) \u201cFor Uganda\u2019s tea, we pay taxes 100% unlike our counterparts who pay about 70% of the taxes,\u201d he disclosed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bassajjabalaba further explained to the president how the wars in some countries like Russia and Ukraine have greatly contributed to the collapse of Uganda\u2019s tea. \u201cFertilizers became too expensive because of this war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bassajjabalaba however said alternative markets for tea are emerging in countries like Dubai, China, Slilanka, Italy, Spain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt has to be government to government negotiations and our tea will compete well if you negotiate for us,\u201d Bassajjabalaba told the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bassajjabalaba hits at UEDCL over power<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The processors further decried the increasing production costs which they attributed to both expensive and unreliable electricity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bassajjabalaba said on top of power getting very expensive, it\u2019s on and off on many occasions which he said it has forced factories to rely on generators. \u201cDuring UMEME times, I used to spend about Sh100million on diesel every month to power generator to run the factory but now I spend Shs250million on diesel. Since UMEME left, I spend 10hours on generator,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" data-attachment-id=\"801\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/?attachment_id=801\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/A-cross-section-of-tea-farmers-tea-processors-and-nursery-bed-operators-listening-to-the-President-on-Tuesday-at-Bushenyi-play-grounds-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1700&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1700\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;9&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D300S&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1755620859&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;22&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1000&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"A cross section of tea farmers, tea processors and nursery bed operators listening to the President on Tuesday at Bushenyi play grounds.\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/A-cross-section-of-tea-farmers-tea-processors-and-nursery-bed-operators-listening-to-the-President-on-Tuesday-at-Bushenyi-play-grounds-scaled.jpg?fit=640%2C425&amp;ssl=1\" data-id=\"801\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/A-cross-section-of-tea-farmers-tea-processors-and-nursery-bed-operators-listening-to-the-President-on-Tuesday-at-Bushenyi-play-grounds.jpg?resize=640%2C425&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/A-cross-section-of-tea-farmers-tea-processors-and-nursery-bed-operators-listening-to-the-President-on-Tuesday-at-Bushenyi-play-grounds-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C680&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/A-cross-section-of-tea-farmers-tea-processors-and-nursery-bed-operators-listening-to-the-President-on-Tuesday-at-Bushenyi-play-grounds-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/A-cross-section-of-tea-farmers-tea-processors-and-nursery-bed-operators-listening-to-the-President-on-Tuesday-at-Bushenyi-play-grounds-scaled.jpg?resize=820%2C545&amp;ssl=1 820w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/A-cross-section-of-tea-farmers-tea-processors-and-nursery-bed-operators-listening-to-the-President-on-Tuesday-at-Bushenyi-play-grounds-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.westernfocusmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/A-cross-section-of-tea-farmers-tea-processors-and-nursery-bed-operators-listening-to-the-President-on-Tuesday-at-Bushenyi-play-grounds-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Caption: A cross section of tea farmers, tea processors and nursery bed operators listening to the President on Tuesday at Bushenyi play grounds.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHalf of the money we spend on electricity can run a factory of the same size in Kenya,\u201d he compared before appealing to the president to get a better power management plan. \u201cWhen power is on and off, it tilts\/affects quality,\u201d he added<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>President Museveni responds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s at this moment where the President announced an injection of over Shs312billion into the tea industry and other interventions to stabilize the sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are going to make sure that we get a fund. We cannot fail to invest in something that is productive whereby you invest in money and get more money,\u201d Museveni said as he assured the stakeholders in the tea industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Museveni said the funds will bail out the processors who will get an allocation of Shsh152billion, Sh46billion will go to subsidization of fertilizers for farmers while Sh112billion will be used to clear nursery bed operators who supplied tea seedlings to tea farmers on behalf of the government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president also announced a temporary taxi waiver on diesel for tea processing factories for some time. \u201cGiving you a taxi free diesel is not bad economics,\u201d Museveni argued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He further directed the ministry of agriculture to expedite the process of drafting a policy to regulate the tea sector\/industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Museveni further pledged to engage with the presidents of China and other countries to see how Uganda\u2019s tea can be treated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stakeholders had said in countries like Kenya and Rwanda where governments have intervened in the tea sector especially regulation, their tea is fetching more money compared to Uganda\u2019s tea which has been left in \u2018lazy-fair state\u2019. They said lack of regulation has left each player in the tea industry to do what he\/she wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cWithout regulation, we are not going anywhere with prices,\u201d said Babu Muguzi a tea farmer from Buhweju district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Daniel Nareeba the Buhweju district NRM secretary general reported that poor roads in the tea growing districts has left a negative impact on the quality of tea. \u201cTea is supposed to spend at least 3hours to reach the factory but in Buhweju and other area it delays on the road and sometimes sleep alongside the road due to impassable roads,\u201d Nareeba said before he urged the president to give special allocations to these areas of tea growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Call for product diversification\/value addition<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The stakeholders also appealed to government to support the initiatives of value addition so that they can do a product diversification. \u201cWe are already making white tea, green tea, yellow tea, soap and perfume from our tea,\u201d said Macklean Kyamutetera a member of Uganda Women in Tea association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is more to it (tea) than what we are doing,\u201d said the former Minister Prof.Tarsis Kabwegyere who is one of the leading tea growers in Bushenyi district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nursery bed operators<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr Francis Runumi who represented the nursery bed operators from Kigezi region said since 2016 they have been demanding money from government in vain. He said about 7 tea factories have since been established in the Kigezi region. \u201cWe went to court but you advised us to sort our issues outside court which we did but since 2021 nothing has been done. Some of colleagues have since run into hiding while some have lost their properties to banks\/SACCOs,\u201d Runumi said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have written and written letters complaining but we don\u2019t know whether you have been seeing\/receiving those letters,\u201d wondered Ednah Nuwasasira a nursery bed operator from Mbarara district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although President Museveni agreed with the tea stakeholders on a number of issues, the President reiterated his position on tea as a low value enterprise in the fight against poverty and household incomes especially those with small pieces of land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGo and write to me whether tea is a high value crop or not. I want my people to be guided well,\u201d Museveni said as he assigned Prof.Ephraim Kamuntu to coordinate the research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Museveni told them that since 1996, he has been on the issue of sensitizing people on the business of both wealth and jobs creation. He said his emphasis has always been on the model where one can do enterprises like coffee, zero grazing, fruits, poultry and fish farming especially those with small pieces of land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe have been advising on both intensive and extensive agriculture to engage in high value enterprises. We have been advising on how one can use two acres to sustain a home\/family,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The president said land has continued to be a problem in the country with the ever increasing population. \u201cA family with children on one acre of land or none remains a problem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He re-emphasized the need to sensitize people to engage in enterprises that will give one money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou of 4acres don\u2019t go for maize. Let the one with big land go in for maize after all we need it for food,\u201d he noted hastening to add, \u201cyes we need cotton to get clothes but how will you get out of poverty with sh1million got from cotton per year?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He expressed his disappointment with people stressing that, \u201csome of my messages fall on \u2018barren soils while some fall on fertile grounds\u2019. Some people fail to listen to our advice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He recalled that at some point while on a visit in Kigezi region he cautioned leaders not to involve his small land holders in tea growing but to leave tea to people with big chunks of land and with capacity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrom the beginning, tea was seen as a low cash enterprise. Tea should have been grown by medium or large scale farmers,\u201d he reiterated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also explained that one of the reasons why tea has been affected is because its demand globally is low compared to coffee which he said is highly needed internationally. \u201cGlobally, the production of tea is bigger than the demand,\u201d Museveni said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the delays of payments, Museveni said part of the cause has been that money was injected in the Parish Development Model (PDM) whose intention is to have more Ugandans join the money economy. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t leave the 68% of our population to remain outside and unattended to,\u201d he explained. He said PDM has put a number of things like distribution of free coffee and tea seedlings to farmers on halt but said they will soon resume the programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Minister responds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Minister for agriculture Frank Tumwebaze said they have already started on the process of drafting the tea policy and regulations saying it\u2019s before the attorney general. He said it will be rolled out before the year ends. 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