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IFAD, EU announces innovation funds for Rural youth cooperatives worth 200m Euros
Rome, Italy: Youths in sub-Saharan Africa, like Uganda living in rural areas but organized under cooperatives, are set to benefit from the just announced Impact Fund for an innovative approach. IFAD, along…
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Self-Driving Tractors Yet to Convince Farmers to Hand Over Keys
Perhaps sooner than later Cooperatives engaged in wide-scale farming may not need to sit behind their tractors when ploughing or harvesting, but not all farmers are ready to give up control of…
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Museveni: Embrace modern technology in farming
President Yoweri Museveni has encouraged farmers to embrace modern technology so as to get high yields. He also asked the farmers to change in their attitude and instead be calculative and use…
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Experts urge Dairy farmers to join cooperatives
With Uganda’s estimate of milk production in the next five years being ten billion liters annually, experts have recommended that cooperatives be supported, so as to strengthen more capacity for milk production.…
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President Museveni caution farmers harvesting and trading immature coffee
President Yoweri Museveni has cautioned farmers and traders against harvesting and trading in immature coffee. He said this led to compromising the quality of the coffee production which inevitably affects the commodity’s…
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Trade Ministry to host inaugural BUBU Expo
KAMPALA, Uganda: The inaugural Buy Uganda Build Uganda (BUBU) Expo is set to take place between March 7-9 at the Independent Grounds in Kololo. The event is organized by the Ministry of…
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No Market: West Acholi Growers Coop stuck with 20 tons of sorghum
GULU, Uganda: In 2017 when prices of soya beans went up, West Acholi Growers Cooperative Union ventured into the produce, only to regret when there was a bumper harvest that led to…
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East Acholi Cooperatives Union Leases Ginnery To South African
KITGUM, Uganda: East Acholi Cooperatives Union Limited have for four consecutive years topped the pack as the leading producers of cotton for export in the country. Last year, (2018) the union produced…
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Wamala Growers Cooperative Union set to earn over 30 billion
MITYANA, Uganda: When the prices of maize slumped in the last season leaving thousands of farmers crying foul over the low maize prices that dropped to as low as shs150. The wise…
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PHOTOS: Minister without portfolio Abdul Nadduli in Busia to launch Bukedi Fronasa Veterans Cooperative
PHOTOS: Minister without portfolio Abdul Nadduli in Busia to launch Bukedi Fronasa Veterans Cooperative
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