Agriculture
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Go big on Coffee, Bushenyi Farmers Told
BUSHENYI – Large-scale coffee farming could be the surest way to draw into the district a steady stream of investors from across the country and guarantee big pay-days for Bushenyi farmers in…
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Nwoya Rice Farmers Hit By Falling Prices
NWOYA – A bumper harvest should be a gift to farmers hoping to profit off the huge sales but the plummeting retail prices in the last two seasons have drowned out the…
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Plummeting Prices Anger Cotton Farmers
KITGUM – Cotton farmers in Acholi sub region face a painful choice: whether to quit or continue growing cotton on a large scale despite the plummeting market prices. East Acholi Cooperative Union…
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Masindi Sugarcane Farmers Elect New Board
MASINDI – Masindi Sugarcane Farmers Association Limited (MASGAL) has a new board elected on June 2. Robert Atugonza, a former board chairperson bounced back unopposed to replace Cosmas Byaruhanga, who is also…
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Acholi Cultural Institution Joins Tea Growing
ACHOLI – Acholi cultural institution’s ministry of Production and investment, the Ker Kal Kwaro Acholi, recently joined the tea growing family in Acholi Sub region. The Acholi cultural institution has joined hundreds…
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Maize SACCOs Get Lobbying And Marketing Skills
MASINDI – In the western district of Masindi, 15 cooperatives and two associations dealing in maize grain production have learned new lobbying and marketing skills as well as advocacy during a one-day…
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Cattle Rustling Derails Farming In Lamwo
LAMWO – Cattle rustling has soared in Agoro Sub County, Lamwo District. It has diminished the oxen herd and subsequently frustrated commercial farming in the area. Francis Todwong, the LC-I chairman of…
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Heavy Rains Worry Cassava Farmers
PADER – The unrelenting heavy rains battering Pader District are threatening to wipe out the livelihoods of cassava farmers in the northern district. Cassava farmers allied to Acholi- bur Cooperative Society in…
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Join Cooperatives To Defeat Middlemen
OMORO – Middlemen, according to farmers in Omoro District, are raking in all the profits and paying peanuts for unprocessed millet, sorghum, maize and soya-beans. The farmers claim they have fallen easy…
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Kwania Farmers Sign Sorghum Growing Deal
KWANIA – Farmers in Kwania have agreed a deal that effectively leaps sorghum to the front-of-the-line of crops grown on a large scale in the northern district. Several farmers signed up to…
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