Farmers
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Cooperatives & Communities
Coffee business is my life, my passion, says the enterprising Dison Kaleng
KAPCHORWA – Dison Kaleng, 35, the proprietor of Bros Coffee in Kapchorwa town, says his growing coffee value chain business is his life and passion. Bros Coffee may sound a name unfamiliar,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
PDM: Farmers, oil millers urge gov’t to set prices of commodities
LIRA-Oil millers, manufacturers, and farmers producing sunflower and soybean in the Lango Sub-region want government to regulate the prices of commodities in the country, saying it is the only way farmers will…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Demonstration farms help farmers appreciate value of fertilisers
GULU-A joint initiative by two fertiliser-producing companies is helping farmers in Uganda to appreciate the importance of using fertilisers to boost farm yields. Yara Fertilizer Company and Export Trading Group-ETG have collaborated…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Farmers gain as Kinyara Sugar Works raises price for cane second time
MASINDI-Sugar manufacturer, Kinyara Sugar Works Limited, has again increased the price it offers to cane farmers, saying it will now buy at Shs 128, 000 from Shs 101,000 it has been paying…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Ntungamo pineapple farmers cry out to gov’t as factory stops operations
NTUNGAMO-Farmers who embraced commercial pineapple growing in Itojo Sub-county and Nyamukana town council in Ntungamo are now crying to the government to help them find buyers after a local juice-processing factory failed…
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News
LEGS project improving lives of farmers in rural areas, says minister Magyezi
FORT PORTAL – The Minister of Local Government, Raphael Magezi has said the Local Economic Growth Support [ LEGS ] project is on track to improve the lives of more than one…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Farmers advised to grow fast-maturing crops and vegetables
AGAGO -Agago district commercial officer, Geoffrey Otema has tipped cooperative farmers to plant fast-maturing crops and vegetables as the rainy season nears its end. According to Otema, crops and vegetables that take…
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Environment
The Jane Goodall Institute courts farmers to conserve protected areas
KIKUUBE– The Jane Goodall Institute, a global non-governmental conservation organisation with a keen interest in chimpanzees, has started offering livelihood alternatives as incentives to prevent farmers from encroaching on protected areas. The…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Sheema dairy farmers abandon milk facility donated by gov’t
SHEEMA –Dairy farmers in Sheema district have rejected a milk cooler installed by government over 10 years ago to boost production and marketing of the farm product. The fully-fledged 300-litre capacity milk…
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Cooperatives & Communities
BCU mobilises coffee farmers, offers cheap loans
MBALE-Bugisu Co-operative Union [ BCU ] is engaged in zonal mobilisation meetings with coffee farmers in Bugisu Sub-region as one of the measures to increase the supply of green coffee to the…
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