Sarah Marjorey
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News
Minister warns cooperative leaders against corruption
The Minister of Trade, Industry and Cooperative, Amelia Kyambande has warned cooperative leaders against corruption and selfish interests. She warned that some board members of various cooperatives are extravagant, which may give cooperative…
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Topics
Cooperatives tipped on Investment bodies
Cooperatives get together to save money, but did you know that more can be done to grow that money from the saved cooperative money? How about putting the money into an investment body?…
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Development
Kwefako cooperative, houses Uganda’s dream homes
Many homes in Uganda’s suburbs are in unplanned neighborhoods. Stories of the neighbor’s sewer flooding into the next neighbor’s kitchen are not far talk. Having organized neighborhoods averts such cases. If you…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Experts urge Dairy farmers to join cooperatives
With Uganda’s estimate of milk production in the next five years being ten billion liters annually, experts have recommended that cooperatives be supported, so as to strengthen more capacity for milk production.…
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Western
How coffee gave birth to the Banyankole Kweterana cooperative society
Coffee came to Mbarara in the 1930s, with the hilly ranges providing pasture and fertile soils to support herding and cultivation. Earlier attempts by the colonial government to introduce a cash crop…
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Opinions & Commentary
Challenging future for cooperatives
From Mbale to Mbarara, and Masaka to Arua, an agreement holds that cooperative unions drove the growth and transformation of then Uganda, in the 60’s. Now with several cooperatives making a return…
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Opinions & Commentary
Uganda’s first Chocolate maker eyes setting up a Cooperative
When you met 32-year-old Stephen Ssembuya, his passion for chocolate strikes you immediately. Stephen hangs pictures of chocolate bars in his office and does not go for over 10 minutes without talking…
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