Could oil overtake agriculture as East Africa's economic mainstay?

Holger A. Kray is the lead agricultural economist for Africa in the World Bank’s Agriculture Global Practice and head of the Africa Agricultural Policy Unit, which carries out and oversees economic and other policy work related to agriculture in the region. The World Bank economist was in Uganda and spoke to The East African’s CHARLES MPAGI on the prospects for the sector in the face of oil discoveries in Uganda, Kenya and South Sudan