Farmers
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Cooperatives & Communities
Northern Uganda: CBO empowers needy girls of cooperators
PADER – The Covid-19 pandemic lockdown for two years affected girl children of the cooperators in Pader, Kitgum, Agago, and Lamwo districts as they got pregnant and could not continue with classes…
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International
IDF WDS 2022: Co-ops will make India 3rd economic power-Minister
NEW DELHI – While Prime of India Narendra Modi early this week launched the International Dairy Federation’s World Dairy Summit 2022 [ IDF WDS 2022 ], Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Post Bank Uganda to become agriculture bank!
KAMPALA– Operation Wealth Creation [OWC] officials have asked government to transform Post Bank Uganda into an agriculture bank so that farmers in the country can access low interest loans to fund their…
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East Africa
Congolese co-op promotes peace through prosperity
KIVU- The Congolese province of South Kivu has a dangerous past—and a complicated present. Lake Kivu, the lake that gives the province its name divides the DRC from neighboring Rwanda to the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Marketing farmers’ produce: Kwania gets Shs 600mln to rehabilitate community roads
KWANIA -Kwania district local government has received Shs 600 million from the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries [MAAIF] to rehabilitate community access roads in the district so that farmers are…
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Development
Commercial officers urged to guide farmers form cooperatives
LIRA-District commercial and extension officers in Lango Sub-region have been advised to guide farmers to form cooperatives as the most realistic means of weeding out poverty in Ugandan households. The Lira Resident…
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Cooperatives & Communities
MPs urge gov’t to give farmers electricity for value addition
HOIMA -The Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture has expressed concern about the value addition processing facilities, which were constructed by the government, but are not connected to the electricity grid, making it hard…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Gov’t offers seeds to cooperatives in Lango and Acholi regions
LIRA – Government has given sunflower and soybeans seeds on a loan basis to 22 farmer cooperatives and 48 large-scale farmers in Lango and Acholi sub-regions. According to Dr. Charles Aben who…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Farmers’ group boosted with equipment and seeds
GULU-Opar pi wan Farmers Group which engages in horticulture in Loyo-boo village, Unyama Sub-county, Gulu district has received farming equipment and seeds worth Shs 7.4 million. The group which also grows and…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Coffee farming: Amuru district official urges farmers to form associations
AMURU– Amuru district agricultural office is rallying coffee farmers in the district to form associations, saying they would help in the economic transformation of the farmers’ households. Currently, the district has about…
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