Farmers
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Cooperatives & Communities
Multi-million rice huller unused for two years due to lack of power
A 98 million-shilling rice huller belonging to Latyeng Farmers’ Group in Gulu district has remained unused for more than two years, due to lack of power to run it. The machine which…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Soroti fruits factory management calls for ban on juice concentrate imports
The management of Soroti Fruits Factory has called upon government to ban all the importation of juice concentrates in order to promote local consumption of the factory’s all-Ugandan concentrate. According to the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Masaka Cooperative Union gears up to resume coffee export
The Masaka Farmers’ Cooperative Union is undertaking comprehensive restructuring aimed at resuscitating its coffee export potential. Registered in 1951, the union was established to strengthen coffee farming and marketing in the greater…
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Karamoja traders welcome the re-opening of the Moroto- Nakapiripirit- Mbale road
Traders from Karamoja have described as a relief, the reopening of Moroto- Mbale- Muyembe road, saying that it will ease access to bigger markets and reduce their cost of doing business. The…
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Napak farmers reap big from cassava growing
Former cattle rustlers-turned crop farmers in Napak district are reaping big from cassava-growing in Karamoja, theCooperator has learned. Cassava, a staple food for many communities in the rest of Uganda, was initially…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Ministry of Agriculture to construct post-harvest handling facilities in 57 Districts
Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries(MAAIF) has started on constructing storage facilities and rehabilitation of road chokes in farmer communities across the country. The development was revealed by the State Minister…
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Gulu vendors and consumers embrace online trade
Traders and consumers in Gulu are embracing an online platform to sell and buy goods. For close to two months now, many traders in Gulu have taken to a new online store,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Teso citrus farmers look to regional market in the post COVID-era
Contrary to widespread gloomy economic projections in the post-COVID future, citrus farmers in Teso sub-region are optimistic that they will grow their market share in the East African region due to “the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Over 200 acres of crops destroyed by hailstorm in Masindi
More than 300 farmers from five villages in Pakanyi Sub County in Masindi district are counting losses following a hailstorm which destroyed over 200 acres of crops on Wednesday this week. The…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lamwo: 400 LDUs deployed to plant sugarcane due to labour shortage
Four hundred Local Defence Unit personnel, LDUs, have been deployed to help plant sugarcane for Ayuu Alali Cooperative Society Limited in Lamwo district. The Ministry of Agriculture resorted to using the LDUs…
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