Development
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PWDs on Emyooga: We Are Left Behind
HOIMA – People With Disabilities (PWDs) in Hoima and Kikuube districts say they have been competing with everyone else for Emyooga cash grants and have always been outcompeted because they are poorer…
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New Market Swells Demand For Mangoes in Gulu
GULU – Farmers in the northern district of Gulu District are happy about a new market at Gulu University Faculty of Agriculture that has swelled demand for mangoes. The university’s faculty of…
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Gulu Opportunistic Pig Farmers Under Attack
GULU – Across northern Uganda, Marcelo Peter Okwonga is pitching a switch to a more sustainable pig farming model to get rid of the many opportunistic small holder farmers. Interviewed recently in…
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Rising Layoffs Worry Nwoya Casual Workers
NWOYA – Commercial farmers in Nwoya are cautiously scaling back operations and increasing layoffs of casual labor jobs largely to cope with the grim Covid-19 restrictions on movement. The rising lay-offs of…
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Nwoya Farmers Cut Losses, Drop Maize Crop
NWOYA – Poor harvests of maize last year has done more than shatter the hopes of Nwoya farmers as they quit planting the crop altogether. Nwoya Cassava and Rice Growers Cooperative Society…
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Museveni To Farmers: Don’t Overprice Milk
KAMPALA – Insidious cattle diseases such as Foot and Mouth and Anthrax have diminished the quality of the country’s animal products, made farmers to overprice milk and narrowed their competitive edge in…
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Aupi Community Cooperative Fails To Cultivate Land
YUMBE – Aupi Community Cooperative farmers struggled for three years to find money to buy 200 acres of farmland. Now, they can’t cultivate the huge acreage in the West Nile district of…
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Farmers To Resume Cassava Growing
NWOYA – After a three-year cassava mosaic imposed lay-off, farmers will resume cassava growing in the northern district of Nwoya next year. Farmers allied to Nwoya Rice and Cassava Cooperative Society Limited…
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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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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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