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• Control tobacco growing, says minister 

THE agriculture state minister, Aggrey Bagiire, has directed authorities in West Nile districts to enact bylaws to regulate the cultivation of tobacco to save the region from environmental degradation.

The directive follows a recent meeting the minister held with Koboko district leaders in Koboko town. Bagiire, who had travelled by road, expressed shock at the lack of forest cover in the area.

"These farmers have been here for over 40 years but what you see from Arua to Koboko is bad." "Other than the small trading centres, there are countable iron sheet-roofed houses," Bagiire said.

He said with the bylaw, tobacco farmers would also be required to grow food.

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