Maya Nyambok
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Cooperatives & Communities
Nwoya cooperatives receive Produce stores worth Shs 500m
Produce stores worth over Shs 500m have been constructed for three farmer cooperatives in Nwoya district in an effort to boost post-harvest handling. One store worth Shs169.2mwas built for Koch Goma Cooperative…
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Cooperatives & Communities
SACCOs urged to invest savings
Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisations (SACCOs) have been urged to invest their savings in order to grow their profits. Gulu City Mayor-Elect, Alfred Okwonga, who was over the weekend speaking to members…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Okere Shea Cooperative Society opens a world of possibilities with Shea nut
Besides providing cooking fuel like charcoal and firewood, most locals in Otuke district for a long time did not know of any other uses of the highly-prized shea nut tree. However, through…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Arua, Terego and Madi-okolo districts agree to share Shs 11 bn infrastructure cash
Three west Nile districts of Arua, Terego and Madi-Okollo on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on sharing funds worth Shs 11bn from the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development -Additional…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Museveni donates tractor to ex-soldiers
Ex-special forces soldiers from Gulu, commonly known as Kikosi Maalum, have received a tractor donated to them by President Yoweri Museveni to help them get out of poverty through agriculture. Mathew Opoka,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
FOWODE trains 800 women entrepreneurs in basic business skills
Over 800 small scale business women in Gulu district have benefited from basic business skills training from the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE), a women’s national non-partisan organization. The women, who…
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News
Gulu: Farmers shun beehives worth Shs 12m
At least 200 beehives worth Shs 12m have been shunned by the farmers they were intended for, with some reportedly turning them into fire wood for cooking and construction materials for chicken…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Local non-profit mentors farmers into entrepreneurs
In a bid to break the cycle of poverty, thousands of farmers in Gulu, Nwoya, and Kitgum district have embraced entrepreneurship, engaging in income generating activities like retailing silver fish, vegetables and…
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News
Soya farmers reap big from bulking with local cooperative
Soya bean farmers in Acholi sub region who bulked their crop with a local cooperative at a time when market rates had dropped precipitously are starting to smile following a surge in…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Gulu city’s sludge manure to undergo testing
Despite the high demand for sludge manure by vegetable farmers in Gulu, the National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has said it cannot start selling the organic manure until it’s tested for…
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