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Cooperatives & Communities
Huge Chunks Of Tea Wasting Away In Zombo
ZOMBO –Tea agriculture has gained a big toehold in the West Nile district of Zombo but frustration is growing among farmers over the lack of a processing factory and the pitiable prices…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Street Vending Empties Hoima Central Market
HOIMA – One-by-one, vendors are walking out of a fast emptying Hoima Central Market and pouring onto the crowded city streets to sell their merchandise easily. The abandoned lockups are mainly on…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Abapiri Farmers Lobby For Shs 400m Warehouse
KWANIA –Frustrated by how little farm produce they can stash away, a 450-member group of farmers allied with Abapiri Oil Seed Cooperative Society, in Abapiri Village, in Chawente Sub County, Kwania District…
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Gulu Farmers Avoid Large Scale Farming
GULU –Deeply frustrated by the high cost of opening and ploughing virgin land, farmers in Acholi sub-region have steered clear of large scale farming. Beatrice Kipwola, a member of Paicho Central Kal…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Gulu City Traders Issue Ultimatum To Umeme
GULU – Gulu Market vendors have issued a two weeks ultimatum to electricity distribution company, Umeme: Stop the power outages or brace for street protests. Complaints have been piling but the latest…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Anger In Hoima As Leaders Cling On To Emyooga Cash
HOIMA –As district authorities in Hoima continue to hold on to certificates of 62 savings and credit co-operatives (Sacco) denying them access to Emyooga cash for weeks, angry complaints are piling and…
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Emyooga Program Is Not Political –Lira RDC
LIRA –Appearing on 88.0 Voice of Lango FM, Lira Deputy Resident Commissioner rigorously fended off pointed allegations that the Presidential Initiative On Job and Wealth Creation, Emyooga program, was introduced to benefit…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Beneficiaries: Emyooga Cash For SACCOs Too Little
“You find a Sacco with over 500 members in different associations in a constituency getting Shs 30 million, do you expect it to help them out of poverty. I saw some members…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Budget: Kwania Cooperatives Get Shs 89m
KWANIA –The district local council has allocated Shs 89,378,000 million to run cooperatives next financial year. The money will go to the 14 fully registered Saccos in the Northern district, and 917 Village…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Zombo Tea Cooperative In Expansion Drive
ZOMBO – Zombo Tea Growers’ Cooperative Society Limited is using a multipronged recruitment push to draw more farmers into the cooperative in its renewed effort to popularize tea growing in the West…
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