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Ankole: Concerns Over Use of Rat Poison to Preserve Beans and Grains
The use of rat poison for beans and grain preservation has caught the attention of individuals, health workers, and government agencies to food quality and safety in the Ankole sub-region. The population…
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A New Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Launched in Masindi
A new coffee farmers’ cooperative society has been launched in Masindi district, to provide technical skills and find a market for farmers. Bwijanga Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Society will also provide modern agricultural…
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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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Traders cry foul for missing out on credit over SACCO management
Hoima Central Market Vendors are crying foul for missing out on loans from the Micro-Finance Support Center because of a dormant Savings and Credits Cooperative Organization. Some of the vendors, who spoke…
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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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Dry season hits Hoima Coffee farmers hard
Coffee farmers in Hoima are struggling to cope with the dry season as most of the farmers had just planted coffee distributed to them by Uganda Coffee Development Authority-UCDA and under operation…
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Journalists in the oil-rich Bunyoro region urged to tap into the oil and gas industry
The Hoima resident district commoner Samuel Kisembo Araali has asked Journalists in the oil-rich Bunyoro region to tap into the benefits accruing from the oil and gas industry. Kisembo revealed this during…
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Cooperatives urged to take on opportunities in the oil and gas industry
Hoima: Oil companies and the government has urged farmers in Bunyoro sub-region to prepare and take advantage of the existing opportunities in the oil and gas industry. Jesca Kyeyune, the national content…
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