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Tororo cooperative counts losses as floods destroy bulked produce
TORORO, November 11, 2026 – Heavy rains and violent hailstorms have devastated storage facilities belonging to Usukulu Farmers’ Cooperative Society Limited in Tororo district, destroying tonnes of bulked produce and damaging structures…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kikuube youth SACCO seeks gov’t support for farm mechanisation
KIKUUBE, October 21, 2026 — Leaders of the Kikuube District Youth Savings and Credit Cooperative Society Limited [SACCO] have appealed to the government to provide agricultural mechanisation equipment, including tractors, to enable…
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Agriculture
NARO intensifies cassava multiplication to boost food security in drought-prone Karamoja
SERERE, October 15, 2026 — The National Agricultural Research Organisation [NARO] has intensified cassava multiplication efforts to ensure farmers in the Karamoja Subregion have access to quality planting materials to help them…
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Environment
Climate change takes toll on Lango farmers as crop wither in gardens
ALEBTONG, September 22, 2026 — Simon Eluk, a resident of Amwak village in Omoro Subcounty, Alebtong district, planted maize on a two-acre garden hoping to harvest two tonnes by December. However, the…
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Hunger looms as frequent elephant invasions overwhelm Kiryandongo residents
KIRYANDONGO, September 16, 2026 — Residents of several villages in Kicwabugingo, Kyankende and Kigumba sub-counties in Kiryandongo district have appealed to government to compel the Uganda Wildlife Authority [UWA] to construct a…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Coop farmers excited as NARO introduces new climate-smart agriculture technology
KIKUUBE, August 30, 2026 — Farmers in Kikuube District have a reason to smile after the National Agricultural Research Organisation [NARO], in partnership with a Japanese biotechnology firm, launched a campaign to…
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Magazine
From lake to land: How solar irrigation is changing fishermen’s lives in Kaliro district
KALIRO, July 20, 2026 – Nawampiti village is located about 82 kilometres away from Kaliro Town in Bukamba Sub-county, Kaliro district. Here, the cold breeze from Lake Nakuwa once carried the familiar…
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Museveni commissions meat and beans processing factory in Gomba, urges farmers to drive agro-industrialisation
GOMBA, July 16, 2026 — President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has commissioned the National Enterprise Corporation [NEC] Meat and Beans Processing Factory at Katonga in Kisozi, Gomba District, urging farmers to embrace commercial…
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Uganda’s exports rise 24.3 percent despite decline in coffee earnings
KAMPALA, June 19, 2026 — Uganda’s merchandise exports registered strong growth over the past year, increasing by 24.3 per cent to reach US$ 1.40 billion in April 2026, up from US$ 1.13bln…
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Public procurement is a strategic tool for delivering fast growth — PSST Ggoobi
KAMPALA, May 8, 2026 — The Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury, Ramathan Ggoobi, has said Uganda’s transformation agenda under the Fourth National Development Plan [NDP IV] and the Tenfold Growth…
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