Farmers
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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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News
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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