In a major boost for Uganda's agricultural sector, a high-level delegation of investors has arrived in the country, expressing a strong interest in the cocoa industry. This follows President Museveni's recent campaign encouraging local farmers to take up cocoa farming.
A highly anticipated meeting between government officials, a foreign investor, and members of the Sebei Cooperative Union ended in deadlock after farmers vehemently rejected plans to lease part of their land to an investor, with locals declaring they would not become "modern-day slaves" on their own ancestral property.

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