Patrick Jaramogi
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Central
Farm Animal Welfare Driving Global Food Business to Action
KAMPALA, Uganda: Animal Welfare is not a priority for some of the world’s largest food and restaurant brands, reveals a new report released at Hotel Africana, Kampala by World Animal Protection. The…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Government releases UGX 1.3b for teachers SACCO
KAMPALA, Uganda: As the 2019/2020 budget gets read amidst the meagre income of the teachers, the government put a smile on the faces of the teachers with another release of Ugs1.3 billion…
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Agriculture
OWC targets cooperatives in new shs600b fund for presidential Agri-Led Initiative
KAMPALA, Uganda: The Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) has started countrywide mobilization of farmers grouped under cooperatives to benefit from the Presidential directive on Agro Industrialization for Local Development, thecooperator has learnt. The…
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News
Cooperatives to hit 20,000 by December – Kitandwe.
KAMPALA, Uganda: Uganda will have 20,000 registered cooperatives by the end of the year, the Cooperator has established. According to figures from the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Cooperatives, as of May…
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East Africa
Police SACCO fails to account for Shs.5billion, faces forensic audit.
Kampala, Uganda: Police’s main savings’ scheme – Exodus Savings and Credit Cooperative society is undergoing a forensic audit, after allegations of improper accountability from the SACCO’s members, theCooperator has learnt. The…
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Agriculture
Uganda, UK partner to improve post-harvest handling for Ugandan farmers
Entebbe, Uganda: Farmers united under cooperative societies are set to benefit from a new partnership between the Government of Uganda and the United Kingdom, that will see them benefit from advanced post-harvest…
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Cooperatives & Communities
EDUCATION KEY IN BOOSTING COOPERATIVES’ GROWTH
United Kingdom: Cooperatives can easily address market failure if they get linked to other social movements and organisation, coop experts have advised. Speaking at a recent seminar at the Open University (OU)…
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Agriculture
Will NAADS seedlings avert food insecurity for Atiak Sugarcane Growers?
AMURU, Uganda: Government is giving away seedlings to Sugar cane farmers in the districts of Gulu, Lamwo, Amuru and Adjumani to forestall an anticipated food scarcity in the Atiak sub-region, theCooperator has…
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Agriculture
Farmers worry of drop in the price of milk, as peak season sets in
MBARARA, Uganda: Cooperators under the Uganda Crane Creameries Cooperatives Union (UCCCU) are worried of an emerging high peak Milk season that is threatening to slump the prices of milk even further, leaving…
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Cooperatives & Communities
North Bukedi Cooperative Union choking on Debt, appeals to President Museveni for rescue
KIBUKU, UGANDA: The leadership of North Bukedi Cooperative Union (NBCU) has appealed to President Museveni to prevail upon Housing Finance bank, regarding a bank loan amounting to Shs.3billion which the Union as…
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