The Vice President Prof. Gilbert Bukenya has said that industralised countries developed by nurturing cottage industries that expanded into huge plants over time.

Prof. Bukenya made the remarks while meeting the chairman of Nyanza Textiles limited, Kishor Jobanputra at his Kakiri home in Wakiso district.

Kishor was undertaking an on spot visit of the new initiatives by the Vice President's small cottage embroidery training and bead making. This is a Vocational Training Centre without walls which is going to be a prototype for other communities in Uganda.

Prof. Bukenya said that most of the designs on clothes, bags and door mats can now be done by the women who have been trained.

He said that NYTIL can help avail cloth for the women to boost their training by working on a number of fabrics.

Kishor extolled the initiatives of the Vice President to improve incomes of Ugandans by starting them into various projects like upland rice farming, poultry, among others that have changed the mode of life of many people.

He offered to help source for raw materials and funding from his friends to support the Vice President rural women cottage industry that is making necklaces and embroidery.