Patrick Jaramogi
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Magazine
What happened to Uganda’s Marketing Boards?
While delivering last year’s State of the Nation Address, President Museveni noted that his government remained committed to using “the export promotion and import substitution routes to storm across the middle- income…
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Cooperatives in the Cotton Industry: the good, the bad and the ugly
Just over two decades ago, cotton was known as the household income generator. Many Ugandans recall how their parents used the proceeds from cotton sales to finance their education under the Cooperatives…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Over 2,000 farmers in Apac set to benefit from a new rice growing project
Farmers in different cooperatives in Lango Sub Region are set to benefit from a recently introduced rice out growers scheme. At least 2,000 farmers in Apac district, have been supported to start…
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Competition is impacting our tourism industry for the better – Mwanje
Formed 10 years ago, One Touch Safaris is trying to leave an imprint on Uganda’s tourism industry. theCooperator’s Patrick Jaramogi had a chat with the founder and CEO Josiah Mwanje about the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Police savings association hit Shs 16bn, acquires estates in Kansanga and Gayaza
The Uganda Police Savings Association Limited (PSAL) has registered a remarkable growth in its savings and asset base. PSAL Chairman, Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIGP) Edward Ochom told theCooperator that the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Wazalendo to conduct an impact audit on its Shs.890 billion loans
Kampala, Uganda: The Uganda Peoples Defense Forces Savings and credit scheme – Wazalendo has announced it is going to embark on an impact assessment of all loans given out to its members…
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Experts Root for Irrigation to Boost Food Security
Kampala: Stakeholders in various chains of agriculture and food security have called for harnessing of irrigation potentials to improve food security and incomes of smallholder farmers. The team of water engineers, agriculturists,…
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African Tax Bodies Struggling to Tax the Digital Economy
Nairobi, Kenya: Uganda Revenue Authority Commissioner General Doris Akol has appealed to tax bodies across the region to cooperate in devising ways of ensuring that virtual foreign firms pay their fair share…
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Scientists root for Organic Farming as a buffer against Food Insecurity
Kampala, Uganda: Scientists have warned against future food insecurity if Uganda’s Agricultural sector does not mainstream use of organic farming practices to preserve land fertility and sustain reasonable productivity. Speaking at the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
West Nile Growers Cooperative Union stuck with Shs.6b worth of tobacco
Arua, Uganda: West Nile Growers Cooperative Union in Arua is struggling to sell off over 6,000 metric tons of tobacco harvested this season, thecooperator has established. The Dilemma follows the Union’s decision…
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