Uganda, Nov. 28 -- The government has urged farmers in northern region to continue growing beans and cassava in large quantities if they are to escape chronic hunger. The farmers abandoned the crops since the emergence of better-paying ones such as soybeans.

Ms Grace Freedom Kwiyucwiny, the State Minister for Northern Uganda, warned that if farmers do not change their mindset, they will continue facing hunger.

"I don't know whether it is scientific but as you were mentioning what you grow, I have seen cassava, soybeans, sunflower, simsim, maize but I don't know why you don't grow beans," she said during the commissioning of a storage facility in Olilim Trading Centre, Olilim Sub-county in Otuke District last Friday.

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