Month: September 2019

Nawangwe calls for Government Sponsorship for Research-focused Graduate Students

Kampala, Uganda: Makerere University Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe has appealed to the government to revive sponsorship for graduate students, arguing that this will transition Makerere into a research-intensive University pivotal to Uganda’s…

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Government Hails Musaazi

The government has described the late Ignatius Kangave Musaaze as the father of cooperatives, whose nationalistic traits brought a lot of positive changes in pre-independence Uganda. Musaazi, who passed away in 1990…

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Government registers over 240 fishing cooperatives

From George Maponga in Masvingo: Government has registered over 240 fishing cooperatives here as it seeks to leverage on the province’s high dam density to improve household disposable incomes and grow the…

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Agriculture Input Handouts Encouraging Laziness among Farmers

Kampala, Uganda: A government program to give out free agricultural inputs including hand-held hoes will lead to laziness, says the Chairman West Nile Seed Multiplication Cooperative Society Uzelle Adam Mohammad. While the…

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West Nile Cooperative Union decries delayed Compensation for war losses

Leaders of West Nile Cooperative Union Limited (WNCU) have asked that the government compensates them for property that the Union lost during the insurgency period between 1979 to 1986 war. Tom Anguyo,…

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Need a house? Try cooperative societies

Housing is one of the essential needs of man. But because the mortgage sub-sector is not virile, building a house can take a decade or two for some while for others, it…

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Chinese Agency Boosts Budaka Rice Coop with Equipment

Budaka. Idudi Rice Farmers Cooperative Society has received an assortment of farm equipment, worth millions of shillings, from South to South Cooperation (SSC) a Chinese organisation. The donation was handed over to…

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Cotton Ginners Strive to End Middlemen Dilemma

Madi Okollo. Authorities in Madi-Okollo District in West Nile are working out a strategy to enhance financial benefits from cotton farming by eliminating middlemen. The concerted strategy is being championed by Gulu Agricultural…

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She Is A Millionaire From Selling Eggs, A Humbling Testimony

Jeanne Nyirankurunziza, a mother of four in her forties, runs a poultry farm with over 700 chickens, some village in Gasabo District, an outskirt in Kigali City. She also rears cows and…

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Sebei Coop Farmers Frustrated by Erratic Weather

Kapchorwa: Extremely hot to rainy weather has meant prolonged delays of planting for farmers from the Sebei sub-region and yet the new season is already witnessing excessive rains. In his 30 years…

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