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UNDP leads joint monitoring team to assess farmer cooperatives’ progress
MONROVIA, November 7, 2024 — Farmer Cooperatives supported by the government-funded Accelerated Community Development Programme [ACDP], implemented, and managed by UNDP, are excited about engaging in commercial swamp rice and cassava production/cultivation.…
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Boosting agricultural value addition: MPs urge gov’t to improve access to electricity in rural areas
KAMPALA, August 9, 2024 – Members of Parliament [MPs] have urged government to improve access to electricity in rural areas to boost value-addition in the agriculture sector. The legislators made the call…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Amoru Amoroto cooperative members to reap big from cassava processing
SOROTI – Farmers under Amoru Amoroto Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited in Awaliwal Sub-county, Soroti district, expect to earn better incomes from processing raw cassava following the recent installation of milling machines. The…
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Cooperatives & Communities
AMURU: Women’s cooperative gets over Shs 300mln rice huller
AMURU– Members of Elegu Women Cross Border Traders’ Cooperative in Amuru district now expects to earn more income following the installation of the rice huller worth Shs 333 million. A rice huller or rice husker is…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Nwoya farmers shun ACDP stores
NWOYA– Four multi-million farmers’ storage facilities in Purongo, Anaka, Alero, and Kochgoma sub-counties in Nwoya district are underutilised as farmers keep their produce in homes, theCooperator has learnt. The storage facilities were…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Cooperative stuck with uninstalled cassava milling machine
NEBBI – Members of Yesu Dit Cooperative Society in Parombo Sub-county, Nebbi district are stuck with an uninstalled cassava milling machine supplied by a local company, China Huangpai Food Machines [U] Limited. The…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Over Shs 380mln storage facility motivates Gulu farmers to grow more maize
GULU-A 60-metric ton storage facility constructed at Shs 386 million for Paicho Central Kal Cooperative Society in Gulu district has motivated farmers there to increase the production of maize. The cooperative is…
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Agriculture
Kwania: Farmers decry low prices of farm produce
KWANIA-Farmers in Kwania district have cried out loud over the low prices of farm produce, saying they are making losses. For instance, dry cassava has dropped by Shs 400 to Shs 1,400…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Tororo: Processing facilities lie idle over lack of electricity
TORORO – Milling facilities established in Tororo district by government to process farmers’ produce into finished products lie unused due to lack of electricity. Naweyo Farmers’ Group in Sop Sop Subcounty are…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Nebbi farmers fail to access inputs via e-voucher system, want their money refunded
NEBBI. A total of 3, 640 model farmers in Nebbi district who were registered under the Agricultural Cluster Development Program [ACDP)] to access agricultural inputs via the e-voucher system want their money…
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