Development
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Minister: Bananas Can Make You Rich
MBARARA –Minister Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja has offered expert advice to farmers that could rake in higher profit: Embrace value addition to reap more income. The Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries…
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Lango Farmers Turn To Hass Avocado
LANGO – Frustrated by poor local yields and wavering low crop prices, farmers in the Northern districts of Kwania, Apac, Lira, Kole and Dokolo are switching to the high value Hass Avocado…
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Roadside Business Loans Spur Trade In Nebbi
NEBBI – Loans may keep some people sad and trapped in a cycle of debt, especially when they outpace one’s savings. But Agnes Akumu, 45, a roadside clay pot dealer, is all…
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Amuru Builds Shs1.5bn Produce Stores
AMURU –To spur on-farm productivity and shore up the market for big volumes of agricultural commodities, Amuru District local government is constructing 11 produce stores worth about Shs1.5 billion for cooperative groups…
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Gulu City Traders Issue Ultimatum To Umeme
GULU – Gulu Market vendors have issued a two weeks ultimatum to electricity distribution company, Umeme: Stop the power outages or brace for street protests. Complaints have been piling but the latest…
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Beneficiaries: Emyooga Cash For SACCOs Too Little
“You find a Sacco with over 500 members in different associations in a constituency getting Shs 30 million, do you expect it to help them out of poverty. I saw some members…
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Zombo Tea Cooperative In Expansion Drive
ZOMBO – Zombo Tea Growers’ Cooperative Society Limited is using a multipronged recruitment push to draw more farmers into the cooperative in its renewed effort to popularize tea growing in the West…
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Museveni gives truck, Money to Gulu sacco
GULU –President Yoweri Museveni has given a Fuso truck and Shs 20m to Gulu Main Market Vendors’ Cooperative Savings and Credit Society Limited –honoring a pledge he made three years ago in…
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Nwoya Farmers Turn To Cashew Nut Growing
NWOYA –Slumping crop prices have shifted farming in the northern district of Nwoya to the high-priced cashew nut. The district recently received 5,714 cashew nut seedlings from the government’s Operation Wealth Creation…
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Rwampara SACCOs Get Nod To Borrow Emyooga Funds
RWAMPARA – April 14 was a day of celebration and a moment of renewed hope for members of saving groups in the Western district of Rwampara after they got the official nod…
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