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Cooperatives & Communities
Nwoya cooperatives receive Produce stores worth Shs 500m
Produce stores worth over Shs 500m have been constructed for three farmer cooperatives in Nwoya district in an effort to boost post-harvest handling. One store worth Shs169.2mwas built for Koch Goma Cooperative…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Form SACCOs if you want to grow, Minister tips women VSLAs
Women’s Village Saving and Loans Associations (VSLAs) in Hoima district have been challenged to turn their associations into Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs) as one way to promote economic growth and…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lango Cooperative Union to switch from cotton to dairy, fish farming
Lango Cooperative Union leaders have unveiled the Union-led Fisheries and Aquaculture program that will see the union embark on the promotion of cassava, milk, and fish farming in the Sub-region. Lango Cooperative…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Weak Primary Societies to blame for collapsing Cooperative Unions
The assistant Commissioner for cooperatives, Robert Mpakibi Waiswa, has attributed the increasing collapse of cooperative unions in Uganda to weak primary societies, lack of diversification and poor leadership, among other reasons. Mpakibi…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Advocacy platform needed for Agriculture sector post-COVID- NAAC
The National Alliance of Agricultural Co-operatives (NAAC) has called for the formation of a nationwide agricultural advocacy platform to bridge the gap between the government and the other actors in Uganda’s agricultural…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Masindi sugarcane farmers grapple with recurrent fires
Sugarcane farmers in Masindi district have expressed concern over a recent spate of fire incidents that have destroyed sugarcane plantations and left the affected farmers counting losses. Justice Twinowaitu, a resident of…
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East Acholi Cooperative Union in training drive to revive defunct primary societies
East Acholi Cooperative Union Limited, EACU, in Kitgum district, has embarked on training members of its primary societies as it attempts to revive the societies, many of which had become inactive. EACU…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Co-operators cry out as new Foot and Mouth disease outbreak hits Lyantonde
Livestock farmers in Lyantonde are desolate following the outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) in the district that has affected milk production and supply. Especially affected are the district’s more than…
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Cooperatives & Communities
West Lango diocese opens SACCO, elects new leadership
Philip Otim, the Apac District Commercial Officer, has been elected Chairperson for West Lango Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited. The nascent SACCO was opened last December by the Diocese of West Lango under…
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Farmers shun Agoro irrigation scheme water
Members of Agoro self-help irrigation cooperative society have stopped using water from the scheme blaming it for destroying their crops and causing their gardens to lose fertility. Agoro Irrigation Scheme was rehabilitated…
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