Uganda, May 12 -- Mr Fred Bwino Kyakulaga, the State Minister for Agriculture, has asked young innovators to pass on the knowledge they have to local farmers in the villages so as to improve their farming methods.

"If your current goal concentrates on disseminating or coming up with innovative ways of disseminating this kind of information to the population, you will go a long way in transforming our local villages," he said on Saturday while presiding over Roots Africa annual agriculture conference at Makerere University.

Mr Kyakulaga said the agricultural sector is battling calamities some of which are natural and asked the innovators to find ways of rescuing the situation.

"Other key pressing issues include innovations around seeds,...