Cassava
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Cooperatives & Communities
High fuel prices hit Gulu farmers hard as some fail to open up farmlands
GULU– High prices of fuel have forced farmers in Gulu district to stop the use of tractors in the opening of their farmlands as they prepare for the new planting season. Currently,…
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Crops destroyed, goats killed as African Armyworm invades Hoima and Kikuube
HOIMA – Farmers in different sub-counties in Kikuube and Hoima districts are calling for help following an invasion of the African Armyworms that have destroyed gardens and grazing farmlands and killed over…
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Cassava Value Addition to Support Livestock Feedlot Technology
Hon Goli Ogwal Moses, MP-elect Dokolo North Constituency is leading a campaign to ensure that livestock farmers in Northern Uganda grow cassava on a large scale for animal feeds to improve their…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Nwoya Farmers Struggle With Cassava Growing
NWOYA – In 2017 cassava brown streak disease wiped out the cassava crop in the northern district of Nwoya. Two years later, frantic attempts by farmers in the district to resume growing…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Prioritise cooperatives for power connection- Min. Ssempijja
The Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), Hon. Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja has urged the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development to prioritize the connection of cooperative-owned businesses to the power…
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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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Eastern Kyoga Multipurpose Cooperative members join ACDP two years after launch
Members of Eastern Kyoga Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society (EKMCS) in Serere district are slowly embracing the Agricultural Cluster Development Project (ACDP), two years after its introduction in the region. ACDP is a five-year…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Nebbi cassava farmers lose millions to disease, factory delay blamed
Over 600 cassava farmers registered under the project component of the Agricultural Cluster Development Program (ACDP) in Nebbi are counting losses after a strange cassava disease raided their plantations. Launched in 2017…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Five cooperative-owned cassava factories nearing completion in Nebbi district
Five cassava mini factories worth over Shs 3bn are nearing completion in Nebbi District. The mini-factories are part of a bid to increase production, productivity and value addition of cassava in the…
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