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Environment
Over 900 hectares of wetlands in Kwania under attack
KWANIA– About 9,460 hectares of wetlands in Kwania district have been invaded by residents for different activities, according to a recent report. A recent report released by the Ministry of Water and…
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News
Local coffee exporter KDS now wants youth as industry game-changers
Kampala Domestic Stores Limited (KDS), one of Uganda’s largest indigenous coffee exporters, said they want to skill youth within central Uganda and get them involved in the coffee value chain as a…
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News
Residents irked by poor roads in Sebei Sub-region
KAPCHORWA: The poor state of community roads in Sebei Sub-region is partly to blame for the poverty that residents face, as farmers find it difficult to deliver their agricultural produce to markets,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Mixed reactions as MPs assess Masindi ACDP activities
MASINDI– MPs on the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture headed by Abim district Woman MP Janet Okorimoi visited two cooperatives this week to assess the activities being implemented by selected cooperatives under the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
FRONASA launches SACCO, calls for return of Cooperative Bank
MUKONO – The veterans’ wing of the Front for National Salvation [FRONASA] has launched a multi-purpose Sacco, calling on the government to re-open Cooperative Bank so that cooperators in Uganda can access…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lutheran Church launches SACCO for members
MASINDI-The members of the Lutheran Church in Masindi have officially launched a SACCO, codenamed Bunyoro Lutheran Community Multipurpose SACCO that among others, will support the farming activities of members. According to Raymond…
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Cooperatives & Communities
PDM: Amuru farmers opt for soybean enterprise
AMURU-Most farmers in the 52 parishes in Amuru district have chosen to grow soybean as an enterprise they will embark on in line with the Parish Development Model [PDM]. So far, officials…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Amuru district tasked to popularise coffee growing
AMURU– Amuru district agricultural department and the district leaders have been tasked to popularise coffee farming to rally more farmers in the sub-sector which is one of the priority enterprises as government…
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Cooperatives & Communities
PDM: MPs rally vulnerable persons to form businesses
GULU-Members of Parliament from Acholi Sub-region have urged the vulnerable persons to establish and register their enterprises before running to borrow from the Parish Development Model [PDM] funds aimed at fighting poverty…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Rice processing plant excites Nwoya farmers
NWOYA– Rice Processing plant acquired under Nwoya Cassava and Rice grower’s Cooperative Society Limited has given morale to small-scale farmers who will now add value to their produce. The farmers have been…
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