Farmers
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Cooperatives & Communities
Review contracts to settle disputes, MTIC official urges Hoima Sugar Limited and farmers
KIKUUBE– A senior official from the Ministry of Trade, industry, and Cooperatives [MTIC] wants Hoima Sugar Limited and cane out-growers in Kikuube district to revise their contracts if the long-standing disputes between…
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Agriculture
Banana farmers suffer losses as strange disease ravages plantations in Kabarole
KABAROLE -Banana farmers in Kabarole district are counting losses as a strange disease continues to devastate plantations for close to a year now. A disease which agriculturalists say is banana rust thrips,…
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Agriculture
Leaders urge farmers to concentrate on food crops as prices of cash crops fall
GULU-Farmers in Acholi Sub-region have been urged to concentrate on food crop production if they are to fight household poverty. This follows persistent price fluctuations for cash crops such as cotton, soybean,…
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Environment
Salvaging forest cover: FAO avails grants for tree planting
ADJUMANI– In an attempt to regain the lost forest cover in northern Uganda and parts of central Uganda, the Food and the Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations [FAO] has signed a…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira cooperative society asks gov’t to establish irrigation schemes
LIRA-Miromi Farmers’ Cooperative Society in Agali Sub-county Lira district wants government to establish sources of water, especially irrigation schemes for agricultural production in the country. A report conducted by Uganda Farmers Common…
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Agriculture
Agago macadamia farmers receive 30,000 seedlings
AGAGO– Government through the Ministry of Agriculture Animal husbandry and Fisheries [MAAIF] committed it will distribute 30,000 macadamia seedlings to farmers in Agago district. Fred Bwino Kyakulaga, the Minister of State for…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Top officials of dairy cooperative in trouble over Shs 600mln UDB loan
KIKUUBE-Top officials of Kyangwali Dairy Cooperative Society Limited in Kikuube district are in trouble for allegedly mismanaging Shs 600 million borrowed from the Uganda Development Bank [ UDB ]. Julius Kwesiga and…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Amolatar women farmers ask FAO for storage facilities, tractors
AMOLATAR– Members under the umbrella of Amot Farmers Association in Amolatar district have asked the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations [FAO] to provide them with storage facilities and tractors,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Mpanga Growers Tea Factory to hold AGM
FORT PORTAL-The Annual General Meeting [AGM] of the shareholders of Mpanga Growers Tea Factory Limited for the year ended December 31, 2021, is to be held on December 8, 2022, according to…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kiryandongo official unveils progress report of PDM
KIRYANDONGO – Kiryandongo district production officer, Hassan Isa Byenkya, who also doubles as the district’s focal person for the Parish Development Model [PDM] has highlighted the progress of the programme in the…
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