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Cooperatives & Communities
EACU Unveils Sim-Sim Value Addition Plan
KITGUM – East Acholi Cooperative Union (EACU) plans to use millions of shillings to improve the value of Sim-Sim and put more money in pockets of its farmers. Many EACU farmers grow…
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Cooperatives & Communities
New Market Swells Demand For Mangoes in Gulu
GULU – Farmers in the northern district of Gulu District are happy about a new market at Gulu University Faculty of Agriculture that has swelled demand for mangoes. The university’s faculty of…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Errant Boda-bodas Warned: You Will Be Banned
MASINDI – Errant Boda-bodas in Masindi District have been buffeted with warnings of the risks of flouting the presidential lockdown directives meant to slow the spread of Covid-19. Iddi Onyera, the chairman…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira Vendors Protest Eviction
LIRA – Vendors in Lira City have continued to rally against their eviction from the streets. On June 17, city authorities resolved to suspend street vending because it draws crowds, which are…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Gulu Opportunistic Pig Farmers Under Attack
GULU – Across northern Uganda, Marcelo Peter Okwonga is pitching a switch to a more sustainable pig farming model to get rid of the many opportunistic small holder farmers. Interviewed recently in…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Go big on Coffee, Bushenyi Farmers Told
BUSHENYI – Large-scale coffee farming could be the surest way to draw into the district a steady stream of investors from across the country and guarantee big pay-days for Bushenyi farmers in…
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Cooperative Goes Into Money Lending
GULU – A savings and loans services association formed in 2019 by West Acholi Cooperative Union has soared to new heights of growth – through money lending of about Shs 10,000 to…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Youth told: Greed For Money Is Killing You
KWANIA – In a training meeting with youth leaders from Kwania District, Dr Joseph Odongkara Abraham, a former principal commercial judge in the UK, offered some honest advice: “You have remained poor…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Gulu Taxi Operators Protest High Taxes
GULU – Gulu Taxi Operators and Transporters’ Cooperative members staged a protest recently at the office of the city resident commissioner to draw attention to what they called high monthly taxes slapped…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira Main Market On Brink Of Ruin
LIRA – Business in the new Lira Main Market is limping and troubled, six years after the market was officially opened in 2015. Business in the market has edged down and traders…
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