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Cooperatives & Communities
2nd Lockdown: Food Prices Double in Gulu
GULU – People in Gulu are struggling to feed their families as food prices soar, spurred largely, by the second national lockdown and ban on inter-district movement and cattle markets. Essential food…
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Cooperatives Fail The Loans Acquisition Test
NWOYA – Without assets to stake as collateral, cooperative societies in the northern district of Nwoya have failed to snap up agricultural loans available in several banks. John Bosco Odong, a member…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Rising Layoffs Worry Nwoya Casual Workers
NWOYA – Commercial farmers in Nwoya are cautiously scaling back operations and increasing layoffs of casual labor jobs largely to cope with the grim Covid-19 restrictions on movement. The rising lay-offs of…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Amuru Traders Stuck With Piles Of Rotting Food
AMURU – To traders in Amuru, piles of rotting food stuck on their market shelves are a sour pain inflicted by the government’s recent cross border movement restrictions of Elegu border. These…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Fire Razes 40 Acres Of Cane In Masindi
MASINDI –The 40 acres of sugarcane razed by fire is a huge jolt to farmers on Kihonda farm in Labongo Sub County, Masindi District. Speaking to theCooperator, the farmers said the fire…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Businessman Arrested For Oil Roads Fuel Theft
KIKUUBE – Ronald Amanya, a spare parts dealer in Hoima town, has been arrested with 40 jerry cans of fuel in a sweeping police crackdown on a gang for fuel theft from…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Nwoya Farmers Cut Losses, Drop Maize Crop
NWOYA – Poor harvests of maize last year has done more than shatter the hopes of Nwoya farmers as they quit planting the crop altogether. Nwoya Cassava and Rice Growers Cooperative Society…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Maize Farmers, FICA Seeds In Pay Dispute
MASINDI – A raging pay dispute in Pakanyi Sub County Masindi District has pitted over 400 maize farmers against FICA Seeds– a seeds producing and marketing company, accused of failing to pay…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Beans Rot In Omoro As Second Lockdown Bites
OMORO – The second shutdown of schools for 42 days to slow the spread of Covid-19 is beginning to bite farmers hard as suppliers of beans to schools are crying foul already. …
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Cooperatives & Communities
Farmers In Tears After Suspension Of Livestock Markets
The 42-day suspension of livestock markets announced by President Museveni on June 6 to slow the march of Covid-19 has been greeted with anger and sadness by farmers and dealers locked out…
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