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Farmers frustrated over low banana prices
Banana farmers in Uganda’s western region have expressed frustration over the current spell of low produce prices that threatens to drive many out of business. Jomo Mugabe, a renowned farmer in Rukindo,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Gulu agro-input dealers run out of stock as lockdown continues
Agro-input stocks in Gulu district are running low following the ban on public transportation as one of the measures to control the spread of the novel Coronavirus. Two weeks ago, President Museveni…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Tomato farmers count losses as prices plummet
Farmers in Kasese are counting heavy losses resulting from a sharp drop in tomato prices. According to several farmers, the farm gate price fell from Shs 50,000 for a basket of tomatoes…
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East Africa
Coffee company increases prices
A coffee processing company in Kasese district is offering farmers better prices for their coffee following the decreased production in the last two weeks. Several coffee farmers in Kasese have, in the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Mbale police fires teargas, bullets to disperse defiant traders over COVID-19
Police yesterday fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse traders who had opened their shops in defiance of a presidential directive prohibiting operation of commercial shops as one of several measures aimed…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Rwampara farmers urged to embrace crop insurance
Farmers in Rwampara district have been urged to embrace crop insurance as one way of mitigating losses resulting from natural calamities. The call was made by the district’s Chairperson, Asaph Muhangi following…
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Cooperatives & Communities
COVID-19: Misery for Ntoroko cattle cooperatives as markets ban begins to bite
Cattle marketing cooperatives in Ntoroko are crying foul as the president’s 32 day ban on cattle markets begins to take its toll. On 18th March this year, the often crowded monthly or…
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COVID-19: Tend your farms despite lockdown, farmers told.
The vice Chairperson of Bugisu Cooperative Union (BCU) has urged farmers in Bugisu to continue tending their coffee farmlands despite several ongoing restrictions imposed by the Government in the battle against Coronavirus.…
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COVID-19: Vehicles seized for violating public transport ban
Police in Mbarara and the greater Rwizi region has cracked down on buses, taxis and motorcycles for flouting the recent presidential directive suspending all public transport for a space of two weeks.…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Bugisu Coop Union Founder to be remembered
The family of the late EV Samson Kitutu, one of Uganda’s first Cooperators and a founding father of the Bugisu Cooperative Union (BCU), is planning to host a Public Memorial Day in…
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