Cooperatives & Communities
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Agriculture Input Handouts Encouraging Laziness among Farmers
Kampala, Uganda: A government program to give out free agricultural inputs including hand-held hoes will lead to laziness, says the Chairman West Nile Seed Multiplication Cooperative Society Uzelle Adam Mohammad. While the…
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West Nile Cooperative Union decries delayed Compensation for war losses
Leaders of West Nile Cooperative Union Limited (WNCU) have asked that the government compensates them for property that the Union lost during the insurgency period between 1979 to 1986 war. Tom Anguyo,…
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Need a house? Try cooperative societies
Housing is one of the essential needs of man. But because the mortgage sub-sector is not virile, building a house can take a decade or two for some while for others, it…
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Chinese Agency Boosts Budaka Rice Coop with Equipment
Budaka. Idudi Rice Farmers Cooperative Society has received an assortment of farm equipment, worth millions of shillings, from South to South Cooperation (SSC) a Chinese organisation. The donation was handed over to…
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She Is A Millionaire From Selling Eggs, A Humbling Testimony
Jeanne Nyirankurunziza, a mother of four in her forties, runs a poultry farm with over 700 chickens, some village in Gasabo District, an outskirt in Kigali City. She also rears cows and…
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Sebei Coop Farmers Frustrated by Erratic Weather
Kapchorwa: Extremely hot to rainy weather has meant prolonged delays of planting for farmers from the Sebei sub-region and yet the new season is already witnessing excessive rains. In his 30 years…
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Sembabule’s Taala Ya Mawogola plots comeback, 4 years after collapse
SEMBABULE: Plans are underway to revive Taala Ya Mawogola Savings and Credit Cooperative Society Ltd, four years after the SACCO collapsed, theCooperator has learned. Simon Peter Ddungu, the Sembabule District Commercial Officer…
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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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How shear butter agro-processing is changing lives of Pader Women
Pader, Uganda: In 2002, as the LRA insurgency raged on in Northern Uganda, 6 women decided to come together to form a self-help group, as a way of coping with the dire…
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West Nile Teachers Want Govt to Address Pay Irregularities
Arua, Uganda: Teachers in West Nile region have appealed to government to consider paying them according to their grades. The teachers, from primary and secondary schools, said majority of them have failed…
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