Caroline Ayugi
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Cooperatives & Communities
OWC to Cluster Beneficiaries For Value Addition
GULU – The second phase of Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) is aiming at clustering beneficiaries into primary and secondary societies, to enable them add value to their products and increase the market.…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Paicho Cooperative Store Construction Delayed
GULU – Construction of Paicho Central Kal Growers’ Cooperative Society Limited (PCKGCS) store has delayed due to inadequate funds. Construction of the store by Stanhope General Merchandise, should have started in October…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Farmers Encouraged To Take Up Agricultural Insurance
AMURU – Leaders of Kweyo Growers Cooperative Society are encouraging their members to take up agricultural insurance, to save them losses resulting from risks such as pests, diseases, and drought among others.…
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Cooperatives Advised To Adopt ICT
Adopting Information and Communication Technologies, ICT by cooperatives is crucial for their continued business operations during the covid-19 pandemic, Mpakibi Waiswa Robert, the assistant registrar of cooperatives, has said. Mpakibi made the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Falling Chia Prices Cripple Cooperative
GULU – Paicho Area Cooperative Enterprise is still grounded without any business activity, a year after it was formed with failing chia prices. These prices, once a reliable source of economic growth…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Fish Feeds Price Farmers Out Of Business
GULU – Expensive fish feeds have forced more than half of the members of West Acholi Integrated Fish Farmers Cooperative Society, WIFFICOS, out of fish farming. WAIFFICOS, a fish farmers’ cooperative, was…
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Cooperatives & Communities
New Market Swells Demand For Mangoes in Gulu
GULU – Farmers in the northern district of Gulu District are happy about a new market at Gulu University Faculty of Agriculture that has swelled demand for mangoes. The university’s faculty of…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Nwoya Farmers Cut Losses, Drop Maize Crop
NWOYA – Poor harvests of maize last year has done more than shatter the hopes of Nwoya farmers as they quit planting the crop altogether. Nwoya Cassava and Rice Growers Cooperative Society…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Nwoya Rice Farmers Hit By Falling Prices
NWOYA – A bumper harvest should be a gift to farmers hoping to profit off the huge sales but the plummeting retail prices in the last two seasons have drowned out the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Acholi Cultural Institution Joins Tea Growing
ACHOLI – Acholi cultural institution’s ministry of Production and investment, the Ker Kal Kwaro Acholi, recently joined the tea growing family in Acholi Sub region. The Acholi cultural institution has joined hundreds…
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