Uganda Atlas of Our Changing Environment - GRID-Arendal

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Kibimba
Rice Scheme
Ten years ago, Uganda was hardly known among rice producing countries, but recent
successes in rice production have earned the country a respectable place among
rice producers that it could quickly turn into the regional supplier of rice. Uganda’s
total area under rice cultivation is now 300 per cent of what it was a decade ago.
The area has increased from less than 60,000 hectares and is now about 180,000
hectares, indicating a high rate uptake in rice production. As Uganda positions itself
to be among the leading rice producers in the region, the general feeling among rice