promoting and protecting the health of plants, plant products and byproducts.
Section 5 establishes the Agricultural Chemicals Board that is required to ensure
that agricultural chemicals are duly registered and used in a manner consistent with
the labeling and in conformity with the regulations made under the Act. The Act
therefore plays a big role of controlling agricultural chemicals in promoting agricultural investment.
The Control of Agricultural Chemicals (Registration and Control) Regulations
1989 requires the Agricultural Chemicals Board to register agricultural chemicals,
fumigators, commercial applicators and premises. The regulations give restrictions
on storage, use, safety, disposal of agricultural chemicals and safeguard of the
environment. Agricultural investment requires compliance with the necessary chemical standards set under the Act and the Regulations.
Section 10(2) of the Investment Code Act Cap 92 prohibits foreign investors from
carrying on the business of crop production, animal production or acquiring or being
granted or leased land for the purpose of crop production or animal production. The
section however does not prohibit a foreign investor from providing material or other
assistance to Ugandan farmers in crop production and animal production or leasing
land for purposes of manufacturing or carrying out the activities set out in the Second
and Third Schedules to the Act. Under the second schedule to the Investment Code
Act Cap 92, crop processing, processing of forestry produce, fish processing, textile
and leather industry, paper production and meat processing are some of the priority
areas for investment in Uganda.
In accordance with the National Environment Act Cap 153 any investor who
wishes to introduce any agricultural chemical that is likely to have an impact on the
environment and soil quality is required like any other developer to undertake an
environmental audit and to also carry out an environmental impact assessment to
ensure that such chemical does not affect the environment and soil quality.
Harmful chemicals affect the soil quality and health hence the arching need to
have laws and policies in place to govern the use of soil in the country.
2.7 Fertilizers Management
Fertilizer management in the agricultural sector is regulated by the National Fertilizer
Policy 2016 which synthesizes the fragmented policies of the Government on
fertilizer into a single coherent whole. The objective of the Policy is to support the
sub-sector in ensuring that the fertilizer industry provides affordable and accessible
fertilizers to farmers for increased and sustainable agricultural productivity and farm
incomes.
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44 Government of the Republic of Uganda, Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and
Fisheries (2016).
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E. Kasimbazi
Section 5 establishes the Agricultural Chemicals Board that is required to ensure
that agricultural chemicals are duly registered and used in a manner consistent with
the labeling and in conformity with the regulations made under the Act. The Act
therefore plays a big role of controlling agricultural chemicals in promoting agricultural investment.
The Control of Agricultural Chemicals (Registration and Control) Regulations
1989 requires the Agricultural Chemicals Board to register agricultural chemicals,
fumigators, commercial applicators and premises. The regulations give restrictions
on storage, use, safety, disposal of agricultural chemicals and safeguard of the
environment. Agricultural investment requires compliance with the necessary chemical standards set under the Act and the Regulations.
Section 10(2) of the Investment Code Act Cap 92 prohibits foreign investors from
carrying on the business of crop production, animal production or acquiring or being
granted or leased land for the purpose of crop production or animal production. The
section however does not prohibit a foreign investor from providing material or other
assistance to Ugandan farmers in crop production and animal production or leasing
land for purposes of manufacturing or carrying out the activities set out in the Second
and Third Schedules to the Act. Under the second schedule to the Investment Code
Act Cap 92, crop processing, processing of forestry produce, fish processing, textile
and leather industry, paper production and meat processing are some of the priority
areas for investment in Uganda.
In accordance with the National Environment Act Cap 153 any investor who
wishes to introduce any agricultural chemical that is likely to have an impact on the
environment and soil quality is required like any other developer to undertake an
environmental audit and to also carry out an environmental impact assessment to
ensure that such chemical does not affect the environment and soil quality.
Harmful chemicals affect the soil quality and health hence the arching need to
have laws and policies in place to govern the use of soil in the country.
2.7 Fertilizers Management
Fertilizer management in the agricultural sector is regulated by the National Fertilizer
Policy 2016 which synthesizes the fragmented policies of the Government on
fertilizer into a single coherent whole. The objective of the Policy is to support the
sub-sector in ensuring that the fertilizer industry provides affordable and accessible
fertilizers to farmers for increased and sustainable agricultural productivity and farm
incomes.
44
44 Government of the Republic of Uganda, Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and
Fisheries (2016).
74
E. Kasimbazi