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Fresh foods prices hike due to drought
Tomatoes are selling like a hot cake in the fresh food market in Busia town. A box of tomatoes has increased to shillings 500,000 from shillings 100,000 in the last four months.…
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Boda-bodas told to form Sacco
In an effort aimed at bringing sanity in the boda-boda sector, riders in Busia district have been urged to form savings and credit cooperatives (SACCOs). David Joggo Mwiria the community liaison officer…
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Districts can use cooperatives to end unemployment
Local governments have been advised to grow cooperatives in an effort aimed at solving the ever-increasing youth unemployment problem. Youth unemployment is the main challenge districts are grappling with to productively engage…
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Farmers bar politicians from joining SACCO
A recently formed farmers Sacco has barred political leaders and others harboring political ambitions from joining their organization. The farmers’ decision is premised on the fear that politicians like owning everything and…
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Start small and Stop lamenting about government
Ugandans have been advised to stop whining about marginalisation and wean themselves off let the government help us syndrome. While on his routine mobilisation on operation wealth creation, Paul Kalikwani the deputy…
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Busia Gold Miners asked to cooperate
Gold miners in Busia district have been asked to form savings and credit cooperative societies to enable them to benefit from efforts to institutionalize the sub-sector. The district chairman Geoffrey Wandera said…
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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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Bududa elderly venture into coffee production
The Bududa district older persons Sacco is venturing in coffee production to rip from increased coffee price, set as a result of rivalry between Bugisu Cooperative Union (BCU) and a German company.…
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Co-op to introduce ‘scan and go’ app, customers can skip checkout
BRITAIN: Co-op is trialing a new “scan and go” app that allows shoppers to scan groceries on their phones and leave the store without visiting a checkout. The co-op has partnered with Mastercard which will…
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Cooperative Federalism is in Danger: Yashwant Sinha
BHUBANESWAR, India: India’s former Union Finance minister Yashwant Sinha has said Cooperative federalism was in danger in the country. The state should get a fair deal and the people sitting in Delhi…
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