Joshua Nahamya
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News
Farmers frustrated over low banana prices
Banana farmers in Uganda’s western region have expressed frustration over the current spell of low produce prices that threatens to drive many out of business. Jomo Mugabe, a renowned farmer in Rukindo,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
COVID-19: Tough times for SACCOS as more members default on loans
Savings and Credit Cooperative Organizations (SACCOs) in Western Uganda are facing increased member defaults on loans in the wake of the novel Coronavirus. According to Pison Mugizi, Chairman of Butuuro SACCO in…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Rwampara farmers urged to embrace crop insurance
Farmers in Rwampara district have been urged to embrace crop insurance as one way of mitigating losses resulting from natural calamities. The call was made by the district’s Chairperson, Asaph Muhangi following…
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Cooperatives & Communities
COVID-19: Milk trade can continue, Mbarara RDC assures farmers
Dairy farmers and traders in Mbarara district are free to transport their milk to the market normally, per the presidential directive, Mbarara Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Lt Col. James Mwesigye has assured.…
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News
COVID-19: Vehicles seized for violating public transport ban
Police in Mbarara and the greater Rwizi region has cracked down on buses, taxis and motorcycles for flouting the recent presidential directive suspending all public transport for a space of two weeks.…
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News
Banana farmers count losses as strange disease rages on
Farmers in Western Uganda are counting their losses in the wake of a ‘strange’ banana disease that has ravaged plantations in the region for months now. The disease, which has been attributed…
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News
Bushenyi Residents Sue Town Clerk over Denial of Public Information
Residents of Ishaka-Bushenyi Municipality have taken the Municipality leadership to court over failure to release what they called public information, saying it contravenes Access to Information laws. Under their pressure group “Make…
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Development
Bushenyi Residents Appeal to Nakalema over Collapsing SACCO
BUSHENYI: Residents of Ruharo parish, Bumbaire Sub County in Bushenyi- Ishaka municipality have appealed to the head of the State House Anti-Corruption Unit Edith Nakalema, over the looming collapse of their SACCO…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Bushenyi Residents Launch Pressure Group to Hold Leaders Accountable
BUSHENYI: Residents of Bushenyi District in Western Uganda have pledged to ensure that their local leaders are more accountable, by forming a pressure group designed to scrutinize Local Government performance at all…
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Agriculture
Bishop Stuart University to Commercialize Student Agri-Business Ideas
Bishop Stuart University(BSU) has announced it is moving to formally register an agribusiness incubation center, with a view of developing its student agri-business ideas for sale as commercial products. The announcement was…
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