What is 50kg Rice?
Price Of 50kg Rice In Uganda
SWT MB Long Grain Rice 50kg
USh 242,000
What Rice is the most consumed In Uganda?
“Supa” (77.8 %) was the most preferred local rice variety while NERICA lines (6.5 %) were the least.
What varieties of rice are grown in Uganda?
There are two main rice varieties grown in Uganda today and they include: Up land rice – this type of rice is grown on land and does not require swampy areas e.g. NERICA 1, 4, and 10.
Lowland rice – this is the oldest type of rice grown, and it requires water soaked places for its production.
What is the demand for rice in Uganda?
The current demand for rice in Uganda is over 225,000metric tonnes of which only 165,000metric tones are locally produced creating a deficit of 60,000MT.
East African countries (Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Burundi) import over 700,000 metric tones of rice per year.