14 PROBLEMS FACED IN RANGELANDS AREAS IN UGANDA

HERE ARE 14 PROBLEMS FACED IN RANGELANDS AREAS IN UGANDA

Water shortage for watering animals and domestic use especially during drought seasons, this leads to death of animals like in Karamoja.

Harsh climatic conditions of low rainfall totals and very high temperature during day and very low temperature at night has caused water shortage, famine, poor pasture, fire outbreaks, etc.

Tropical pests and diseases which attack animals like nagana, crops and human beings like sleeping sickness hindering settlement and animal rearing.
Limited important infrastructure of valley dams, veterinary services, market centres, health centres and roads like in Kaabong which has made the areas remote and inaccessible.
Poor land tenure system of communal land ownership which has led to frequent degradation and abuse of rangelands.

Unfavourable government policies of utilizing the rangelands like the government of Uganda has neglected such areas of Ankole-Masaka dry corridor and Bululi thus limited infrastructure.
Sometimes floods caused by erratic rains in rangeland areas destroy crops and property and also claim human lives like as it was in Teso north eastern Uganda in 2007
Some of the rangeland areas have got porous soils which do not favour crop growing. There is also the practice of poor farming methods like overgrazing which cause soil erosion.