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Cooperatives & Communities
Soroti city receives Emyooga funds
Savings and Credit Cooperatives-SACCOs in Soroti district have each received Shs 30m under the Presidential Initiative on Job and Wealth Creation, commonly known as Emyooga. The District Commercial Officer Soroti, George Tukei,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lango cooperatives hit hard by Kenya maize ban
Members of Abulomogo Maize Farmers’ SACCO are apprehensive about the falling gate price of maize grain at the private aggregating centers in Lango Sub-region as Kenya’s ban on Ugandan maize hits hard.…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira University staff SACCO receives 100m presidential injection
Members of Lira University staff’s Savings and Credit Cooperative Organisation (SACCO) have received Shs 100m in fulfillment of an outstanding presidential pledge, the university’s management has revealed. President Yoweri Museveni pledged to…
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Development
Cooperative Societies urged to tap into Oil sector opportunities
Hoima district LC V Chairperson, Kirungi Kadiri, has challenged farmers under cooperative societies to prepare themselves to take advantage of the myriad opportunities likely to be created by Uganda’s emerging oil and…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Government injects Shs 1.6bn into Masindi SACCOs
The government has given Shs1.6 bn to 54 SACCOs in Masindi district under the Presidential Cluster Initiative on Wealth and Job Creation (Emyooga). The cash injection was made in fulfillment of a…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Agoro Cooperative Society loses vegetables worth Shs 40m to strange disease
Members of Agoro Cooperative Society in Lamwo district have lost about 10 acres of crops amounting to an estimated Shs 40 million to a yet-to-be identified disease. The disease, which mostly affected…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Katuna cooperatives hit hard by Uganda-Rwanda standoff
Cooperatives operating in Katuna town, which is situated in Kabale district, along the Uganda-Rwanda border, have decried the ongoing standoff between the two countries, saying it has cost them business. Relations between…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Masindi Central market vendors revive SACCO after 5-year break
Members of Masindi central market savings and credit cooperative society have revived their SACCO after a five-year break. According to its Chairperson, James Masaba, the SACCO had collapsed after the previous leadership…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Ex-Office Attendant mints Shs 70m yearly from farming
About 15 kilometers from Aduku, along Ikwera to Nambieso Sub County road, lies Ogwang-med-mac farm owned by Patrick Ogwang, a former office attendant, now model farmer. Ogwang, who in the past worked…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Mbarara Central Market completion extended again
Traders in Mbarara district will again have to wait longer before they can occupy the highly anticipated Mbarara Central Market, after its completion date was extended to January 2021. This is the…
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