{"id":8140,"date":"2013-10-04T17:38:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T17:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=8140"},"modified":"2013-10-04T17:38:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-04T17:38:20","slug":"manufacturers-tipped-on-value-addition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/manufacturers-tipped-on-value-addition\/","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturers tipped on value addition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ssekandi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8141\" alt=\"Ssekandi\" src=\"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Ssekandi.jpg\" width=\"276\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Local manufacturers must focus on value addition if they are to make any significant contribution to the country\u2019s Gross Domestic Product.<\/p>\n<p>The advice is coming from the Vice President Edward Sekandi who was this afternoon speaking at the official opening of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> International Trade Fair at the UMA show grounds Lugogo.<\/p>\n<p>He said it is not enough for government to improve the necessary infrastructure without manufacturers\u2019 commitment to ensure value addition to their products.<\/p>\n<p>The show that runs until October 8<sup>th<\/sup> has attracted over 1200 local, regional and international exhibitors<\/p>\n<p><b><br \/>\n<\/b>This year\u2019s trade fair is running under the theme \u2018Accelerating trade and Industrial Growth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local manufacturers must focus on value addition if they are to make any significant contribution to the country\u2019s Gross Domestic Product. The advice is coming from the Vice President Edward Sekandi who was this afternoon speaking at the official opening of the 21st International Trade Fair at the UMA show grounds Lugogo. He said it is not enough for government to improve the necessary infrastructure without manufacturers\u2019 commitment to ensure value addition to their products. The show that runs until October 8th has attracted over 1200 local, regional and international exhibitors This year\u2019s trade fair is running under the theme \u2018Accelerating trade and Industrial Growth. &nbsp; \u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}