Farmers
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Masindi District Farmers Association (MADFA) skilling youths for job creation
Masindi District Farmers Association (MADFA) has partnered with Enabel, the Belgian development agency, to empower youth in the district with skills in welding and fabrication of farm equipment like manual maize planters,…
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Over 600 acres of crops destroyed by hailstones in Agago district
At least 7000 farmers in Agago district are in distress after heavy rain accompanied by hailstones destroyed their crop gardens on Friday. The LC III of Omiya Pacwa Sub-County, Raymond Otim, told…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Amuru RDC rejects immature animals supplied under NUSAF 3
Amuru Deputy Resident Commissioner (RDC), Osborn Oceng Geoffrey, on Friday rejected a total of 46 out of 71 oxen procured by a supplier under the Third Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF…
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Private school teachers in Tooro cry for relief aid
More than 500 teachers working in private schools in Tooro sub-region have appealed for food relief from government three months after President Yoweri Museveni ordered the closure of schools in order to…
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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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