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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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Amuru Builds Shs1.5bn Produce Stores
AMURU –To spur on-farm productivity and shore up the market for big volumes of agricultural commodities, Amuru District local government is constructing 11 produce stores worth about Shs1.5 billion for cooperative groups…
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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 Rice Farmers’ Group Goes For Big Loans
GULU –The 48-member Latyeng Farmers’ group in Gulu District has big plans and an even bigger appetite for loans. First, the group wants to morph into a cooperative largely to attract big…
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Cooperatives & Communities
New Disease Kills Cattle Within 48 hours in Gulu
GULU: The outbreak of Black Quarter disease has exacted a heavy toll on livestock in the Northern district of Gulu. So far 50 cattle have died from the disease, which the district…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Nwoya Farmers Turn To Cashew Nut Growing
NWOYA –Slumping crop prices have shifted farming in the northern district of Nwoya to the high-priced cashew nut. The district recently received 5,714 cashew nut seedlings from the government’s Operation Wealth Creation…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Cooperative fight over assets Spilled into public view
Enock Rusibika, the chairman and his co-executive leaders of Rubaya Cooperative Society Ltd, are battling very damaging accusations of selling the cooperative’s truck registration number UAJ 9791W in March without consulting members.…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Hoima leaders locked in fight over cooperative union
Even before it gets off the paper, a plan by businessman Abdu Mariki Mugisa to form Bunyoro farmer’s Cooperative has drawn strong opposition largely from leaders in the western district of Hoima…
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