Food Security Crops
The food security intervention, NAADS procures and distributes improved planting materials to farmers in the District Local Governments for the major food staple crops for the respective regions of the country, particularly those of quick maturing nature, notably maize and beans. These interventions are aimed at increasing the production and productivity of the various priority crop commodities for improved household food security.
To improve household food security, NAADS supports the production of maize, beans, cassava, banana and Irish potato as well as cowpeas, sorghum and groundnuts through the distribution of seeds and seedlings to farmers.
Maize
Maize is the most important cereal crop in Uganda providing over 40% of the calories consumed in both rural and urban areas. The crop has increasingly become a staple food in many parts of the country due to changes in people’s eating habits
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Groundnuts
Groundnuts also known as peanuts are the second most important legume after bens in Uganda. It’s also the sixth most important oilseed crop in the world.
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Beans
Beans are widely grown for consumption in Uganda, with little use of costly inputs and on a subsistence level.
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Cassava
It is important as it is also a source of household income and can be used for industrial use such as bio fuel, pharmaceuticals, ethanol, textile, paperboard, glue, and livestock feeds to mention but a few.
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Sweet potatoes
• Sweet potatoes are an important food crop grown and consumed by the majority of Ugandans
• Excess produce can be marketed to supplement family income
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• Excess produce can be marketed to supplement family income
Irish potatoes
Irish potato is a food security crop and is mainly grown in the highland areas of the Kigezi and Bugisu sub-regions. However, other areas have also adopted the growing of Irish potatoes.
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Sorghum
Sorghum is an important income and food security crop for those living in drought-prone regions of Uganda.
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