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Cooperatives & Communities
Abulomogo Maize Farmers’ SACCO members receive farm inputs
Members of Abulomogo Maize Farmers’ SACCO have received farm inputs from Ngetta Tropical Holdings, with funding from Micro the Finance Support Centre, to promote sunflower growing. Abulomogo Maize Farmers’ SACCO, formerly called…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Form SACCOs if you want to grow, Minister tips women VSLAs
Women’s Village Saving and Loans Associations (VSLAs) in Hoima district have been challenged to turn their associations into Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies (SACCOs) as one way to promote economic growth and…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Weak Primary Societies to blame for collapsing Cooperative Unions
The assistant Commissioner for cooperatives, Robert Mpakibi Waiswa, has attributed the increasing collapse of cooperative unions in Uganda to weak primary societies, lack of diversification and poor leadership, among other reasons. Mpakibi…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Excess rain blamed for low cotton production in Kasese
Cooperatives and farmers dealing in cotton in Kasese district have decried the lower than expected production of the cash crop as a result of unusually high rainfall experienced last season. Cotton farmers…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Advocacy platform needed for Agriculture sector post-COVID- NAAC
The National Alliance of Agricultural Co-operatives (NAAC) has called for the formation of a nationwide agricultural advocacy platform to bridge the gap between the government and the other actors in Uganda’s agricultural…
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Eastern Kyoga Multipurpose Cooperative members join ACDP two years after launch
Members of Eastern Kyoga Multi-Purpose Co-operative Society (EKMCS) in Serere district are slowly embracing the Agricultural Cluster Development Project (ACDP), two years after its introduction in the region. ACDP is a five-year…
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Agoro Cooperative members decry delayed repair of Irrigation scheme
Members of the Agoro Self-Help Irrigation Cooperative Society have denounced the delayed rehabilitation of the Agoro Irrigation Scheme in Lawmo district, saying the delay has robbed them of the livelihood they earned…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lango Cooperative Union leases 11-square kilometre land to German investor
Leaders of Lango Cooperative Union have leased out a sizeable chunk of its land assets to Smax-Group, a German investor, in a five-year deal that will see the investors develop the redundant…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Masindi sugarcane farmers grapple with recurrent fires
Sugarcane farmers in Masindi district have expressed concern over a recent spate of fire incidents that have destroyed sugarcane plantations and left the affected farmers counting losses. Justice Twinowaitu, a resident of…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Okere Shea Cooperative Society opens a world of possibilities with Shea nut
Besides providing cooking fuel like charcoal and firewood, most locals in Otuke district for a long time did not know of any other uses of the highly-prized shea nut tree. However, through…
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