Farmers
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Cooperatives & Communities
Nwoya Farmers Cut Losses, Drop Maize Crop
NWOYA – Poor harvests of maize last year has done more than shatter the hopes of Nwoya farmers as they quit planting the crop altogether. Nwoya Cassava and Rice Growers Cooperative Society…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Beans Rot In Omoro As Second Lockdown Bites
OMORO – The second shutdown of schools for 42 days to slow the spread of Covid-19 is beginning to bite farmers hard as suppliers of beans to schools are crying foul already. …
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Cooperatives & Communities
Farmers To Resume Cassava Growing
NWOYA – After a three-year cassava mosaic imposed lay-off, farmers will resume cassava growing in the northern district of Nwoya next year. Farmers allied to Nwoya Rice and Cassava Cooperative Society Limited…
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Cooperatives & Communities
District Chairman Vows To Revive Cooperatives
KIKUUBE – Peter Banura took the oath on May 24 as the first elected chairman of Kikuube District and pledged to revive cooperatives to their full glory and riches. In his maiden…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Cattle Rustling Derails Farming In Lamwo
LAMWO – Cattle rustling has soared in Agoro Sub County, Lamwo District. It has diminished the oxen herd and subsequently frustrated commercial farming in the area. Francis Todwong, the LC-I chairman of…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Join Cooperatives To Defeat Middlemen
OMORO – Middlemen, according to farmers in Omoro District, are raking in all the profits and paying peanuts for unprocessed millet, sorghum, maize and soya-beans. The farmers claim they have fallen easy…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Sugarcane Cooperatives Will Save Farmers
MASINDI – On his inauguration day, May 20, Cosmas Byaruhanga promised to use his second term as Masindi District LCV chairperson to get farmers in all sectors in the western district organized…
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News
Cooperative Boosts Food Production In Acholi
GULU – West Acholi Cooperative Union is on a mission to rescue people in Acholi land from the claws of hunger and starvation by increasing food production among its members. Acholi land…
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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
Lango Farmers Turn To Hass Avocado
LANGO – Frustrated by poor local yields and wavering low crop prices, farmers in the Northern districts of Kwania, Apac, Lira, Kole and Dokolo are switching to the high value Hass Avocado…
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