"Protect women's interests in the oil and gas districts"

Supplying fresh produce to oil workers is one of the widely spread hope among the host local communities and one of the major potential benefits of oil exploration for the rural people...[but] is likely to be dominated by a few better-off and large-scale famers, leaving women behind. This is because, supplying oil companies like China National Offshores Oil Company (CNOOC), Tullow and Total E & P in Uganda, calls for large scale produce yet majority of the peasant women in Hoima and Buliisa are still entrapped in the old fashioned subsistence farming...

It is the role of government to encourage small scale farmers, establish markets for them and take steps to study the demands of this market so that the rural women are encouraged as well as helping them know how to address demands that come with oil and gas developments in oil rich districts...

Rural women have a critical role to play in the oil and gas industry in Uganda, as well as sustenance of families and communities by working on gardens, engage in small-scale businesses among others; Oil and Gas industry is an opportunity to boost their efforts. Besides the beautiful infrastructure coming up in the Bunyoro region such as the Hoima Kaiso Tonya Road, a lot needed to be done to enhance and improve agriculture to support women but very little is being done.