{"id":4338,"date":"2023-01-25T08:46:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T08:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=4338"},"modified":"2023-01-25T08:46:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T08:46:33","slug":"museveni-implores-oil-communities-to-grow-more-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2023\/01\/25\/museveni-implores-oil-communities-to-grow-more-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni Implores Oil Communities to Grow More Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Abanabasazi<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4339 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/DSC8811-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/DSC8811-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/DSC8811-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/DSC8811-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/DSC8811-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/DSC8811-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/DSC8811-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>President Museveni has implored people around the oil fields to participate in agriculture by growing more food for the available market.<\/p>\n<p>Museveni was speaking at the launch of the commencement of drilling Kingfisher Oilfield where he switched on the rig\u2013installed in November last year at Buhuka village, Kyangwali in Kikuube district last evening.<\/p>\n<p>The rig is operated by China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) and will start drilling 31 oil wells on four well pads.<\/p>\n<p>At current oil prices of about $87.5 per barrel, the Kingfisher project will account for 15 percent of the total oil revenue to the government from upstream operations, equivalent to $6.9 billion for the entire project, or $360 million per year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople of the area, the biggest local content which all of you can participate in is agriculture because all these people who work in the oil fields need food. Grow food so that these people buy it from you,\u201d Museveni said.<\/p>\n<p>He also warned encroachers in Bugoma forest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peter Abanabasazi President Museveni has implored people around the oil fields to participate in agriculture by growing more food for the available market. Museveni was speaking at the launch of the commencement of drilling Kingfisher Oilfield where he switched on the rig\u2013installed in November last year at Buhuka village, Kyangwali in Kikuube district last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4339,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-national","9":"category-oil-and-gas"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4340,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4338\/revisions\/4340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}