farming
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Karimojong slowly embracing Friesian cattle
When the team from Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) introduced the distribution of goats and Friesian cows to the people of Karamoja, many in the community were sceptical that the breed would survive…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Farmers advised against buying seedlings from open markets
Farmers in Sebei region in the eastern Uganda have been advised not to buy seedlings from companies that have not signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Sebei Elgon cooperative. The call…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Mediterranean flies ravage fruit farms in Nwoya
Hundreds of fruit farmers in Nwoya district are being frustrated by Mediterranean fruit flies that have invaded their acres of fruit trees. The fruit flies cause citrus fruits to turn yellow and…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kinyara, sugarcane farmers feud over cane price
Masindi Sugar Cane Out growers Association Ltd (MASGAL), the biggest supplier of sugar cane to Kinyara Sugar Works Limited, has rejected the new cane price offered by the sugar manufacturing giant. A…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Cente Group announces corporate reorganization, seeks to diversify offerings
Centenary Rural Development Group Ltd, popularly known as “Cente Group”, has announced the completion of a corporate restructuring that will, among other changes, see its banking operation run under a “banking subsidiary”…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Market shortage hits Nwoya fruit growers hard
Members of Nwoya Fruit Growers’ Cooperative Society are out of options on where to sell their mangoes due to disruption of their market resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. Nwoya Fruit Growers’…
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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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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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Inadequate sensitisation blamed for slow e-voucher management system uptake
Inadequate sensitisation is slowing enrolment of farmers in Gulu district into the Electronic Voucher Management System (EVMS), a programme created by the Ministry of Agriculture, Animals Industries and Fisheries to oversee distribution…
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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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