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Kwania farmer groups embrace Micro-scale Irrigation Programme
KWANIA, April 16, 2024 – At least five farmer groups in Kwania district have enrolled for the Micro-scale Irrigation Programme designed to enhance the uptake of cost-effective micro-irrigation technology by farmers in Uganda.…
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Benefiting from community-based tourism: Conservationist asks Nwoya residents to form cooperatives
NWOYA, April 15, 2024 – The Chief Warden for Murchison Falls National Park, Wilson Kagoro has challenged the communities neighboring the park in Nwoya district to form cooperatives if they are to…
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Lango Muslims urged to embrace poverty eradication programmes
LIRA, April 15, 2024 – Supreme Kadhi of Greater Lango Muslim Supreme Administration, Sheikh Muhammad Yusuf Balinda has encouraged the faithful in the sub-region to embrace government programmes aimed at eradicating poverty…
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Kwania cooperative to construct Shs 100mln warehouse
KWANIA, April 9, 2024 – Leaders of Inomo Farmers’ Agro Processors Cooperative Society Limited in Kwania district have received a sum of Shs 104 million for the construction of a new warehouse.…
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Young bee farmers form cooperative to boost honey business
LIRA, April 9, 2024 – In a bid to boost production of honey for the international market and generate more household incomes, the youth in the Lango and Acholi sub-regions have formed…
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Billions lost as fire guts ginnery in Kwania district
KWANIA, April 9, 2024 – Properties worth more than Shs 2 billion have been destroyed in a fire that gutted a section of Ikwera Ginnery in Kwania district. The fire that started at 4:00…
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Lira farmers alerted of counterfeit seeds on market
LIRA, April 8, 2024 – As the new planting season takes centre stage in the country, farmers in Lira district have been advised to watch out for counterfeit seeds flooding the local…
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Shs 2.8bln paid to war debt claimants bounces due to dormant bank accounts
KAMPALA, April 4, 2024 – Over Shs 2.8 billion disbursed to the accounts of war debt claimants from Acholi, Lango, and Teso sub-regions bounced. The Attorney General, Kiryowa Kiwanuka, told Parliament during…
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Govt to probe fraudulent land dealings in Agago district
KAMPALA, April 3, 2024 – The Deputy Speaker, Thomas Tayebwa, has asked the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development and the Attorney General to investigate claims of land grabbing and fraudulent…
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Lango Sub-region: Cooperative distributes seeds to farmers
KOLE, April 2, 2024 – As the new planting season starts, the Alito Joint Farmers’ Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited in Alito Sub-county, Kole district has kicked off distributing soybean and simsim seeds…
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