The Ugandan government is embarking on new efforts to resolve land wrangles that have hampered major agricultural projects in the former war-torn north of the country, the lands minister said Tuesday.

"The just-passed Land Bill is not enough to resolve the wrangles, we are now going to use traditional means to ensure that peace and harmony returns," Daniel Omara Atubo said.

The region's traditional justice system spells out ownership rights on the communally owned land. These are being applied as people displaced by two decades of insurgency return to their homes to engage in agriculture.

During the insurgency the rebel Lord's Resistance Army's action destroyed northern Uganda's position as a major producer of crops like cotton and corn.

Now peacetime efforts to restore its agricultural role are being hit by the land ownership disputes. One such venture is the 40,000 hectare sugar cane project by the Madhavani Group, which already owns Kakira Sugar Work's, Ltd. Uganda's largest sugar producer.

The company was allocated land in Amuri district by the government but efforts to implement the project were halted after local authorities blocked it saying that the land belonged to returnees.

Amuri district is also where Uganda's largest oil fields have also been discovered by U.K.-based Tullow Oil PLC (TLW.LN).

-By Nicholas Bariyo, contributing to Dow Jones Newswires; +256 75-262 4615; bariyonic@yahoo.co.uk
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