Trade
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Global coffee exports up 38 percent in January 2024
KAMPALA, March 6, 2024 – Global green bean exports in January 2024 totalled 11.55 million bags, as compared with 8.51mln bags in the same month of the previous year, up 35.8 percent,…
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MADFA SACCO starts pre- AGMs in Bunyoro Sub-region
MASINDI, March 6, 2024 – Masindi District Farmers Association Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisation [MADFA SACCO] yesterday started holding pre-Annual General Meetings [pre-AGMs] in different districts in Bunyoro ahead of the main…
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Second edition of Mbarara City Festival slated for June this year
MBARARA, March 5, 2024 – Authorities in Mbarara City in partnership with the Private Sector Foundation Uganda are engaged in the preparation of the second edition of Mbarara City Festival, the inaugural…
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Nebbi cassava factory lies idle due to high running costs
NEBBI, March 5, 2024 – Members of Yesu-Dit Cooperative Society Limited in Parombo Sub-county, Nebbi district have abandoned their cassava factory due to high running costs. According to some members of the…
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Somalia to deposit her instrument of ratification on treaty of accession to EAC today
ARUSHA, March 4, 2024 – The Federal Republic of Somalia will this morning deposit her instrument of ratification of the Treaty of Accession with the East African Community [EAC] Secretary General this…
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Poverty blamed for low uptake of irrigation technologies in Lira district
LIRA, March 4, 2024 – The authorities of Lira district have attributed the low uptake of the micro-scale-irrigation technologies to poverty and the poor mindset of some of the farmers in the…
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Premier Nabbanja asked to explain allegations of fraud in PDM
KAMPALA, March 2, 2024 – The Members of Parliament have expressed concern over the alleged fraud surrounding disbursement of funds under the Parish Development Model [ PDM ] to beneficiaries across the…
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Govt donates tractor to Hoima farmers’ association
HOIMA, March 2, 2024 – The government through the Ministry of Animal Industry and Fisheries [MAAIF] has donated a tractor to farmers in Hoima district to promote commercial farming in Bunyoro Sub-region.…
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European Parliament endorses nature restoration law as farmers fear financial fallout
BRUSSELS, March 2, 2024 – The European Parliament has voted in favor of a landmark nature restoration law amid right-wing pushback and farmer protests. While environmentalists see the new law as a…
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WOCCU adds Moldova to list of Member Nations
MADISON, Wis. March 1, 2024 — World Council of Credit Unions [ WOCCU ] has expanded further in 2024, with the addition of two new member organisations, Moldova’s Central National Association of…
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