Commercial farming
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Agro-processing facilities lie idle in Kapelebyong district
KAPELEBYONG – Famers in Kapelebyong district are in agony as agro-processing facilities established about six years ago by government under the Community Agricultural Infrastructure Improvement Programme-project 2 [CAIIP-II] lie idle. Among the agro-processing facilities…
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Agriculture
Napak district offers farm inputs to UPDF
NAPAK – Napak District Local Government in Karamoja Sub-region has offered farm inputs to the Third Division of Uganda People’s Defence Force [UPDF]. While handing over the farm inputs days ago, the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Namisindwa RDC tips youth on PDM
NAMISINDWA – The Namisindwa resident district commissioner [RDC], Imran Muluga has urged the youth in the district to take advantage of the Parish Development Model [PDM] and start up income-generating activities to…
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Youth decry lack of land for commercial farming
KABAROLE – Youth in Rwenzori Sub-region at large have appealed to government to provide them with land so that they can fully engage in commercial agriculture and fight poverty. The young people…
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Teso cultural leader urges subjects to embrace commercial farming
SOROTI – The Emorimor of Teso, Paul Sande Emolot has urged his subjects to embrace commercial farming in a bid to fight household poverty. The Emorimor made the remarks on Friday during…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kilak farmers’ cooperative secures seven tractors
KILAK-Kilak Farmers’ Cooperative Society has received seven tractors ahead of the new planting season, with members saying they will now be able to open more land for production. The tractors were acquired…
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Govt commits Shs 2bln to rehabilitate Kiryandongo road
KIRYANDONGO – Residents of different villages in Kiryandongo Sub-county, Kiryandongo district are now relieved after government provided Two Billion Shillings to rehabilitate a local road. The 20-kilometre Kiryandongo-Kitwara road had spent two…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Utilise PDM to embrace urban farming, Lira City residents urged
LIRA-Although there is limited land in urban areas for large-scale farming, farmers in Lira City have been advised to utilise the Parish Development Model Programme [PDM] to engage in fish and poultry…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Acan Kwete Farmers’ Co-operative Society gets storage facility
OTUKE-The Minister for Northern Uganda, Grace Freedom Kwiyucwiny has commissioned a storage facility for Acan Kwete Farmers’ Co-operative Society in Olilim town council, Otuke district. The farmers’ storage facility constructed for bulking…
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Agriculture
Uganda targets world silk market
BULAMBULI-Uganda has the opportunity to move from subsistence to commercial farming in some strategic sectors like silk production to become one of the leading suppliers in the world. Members of the Committee…
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