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Cooperatives & Communities
Museveni To Farmers: Don’t Overprice Milk
KAMPALA – Insidious cattle diseases such as Foot and Mouth and Anthrax have diminished the quality of the country’s animal products, made farmers to overprice milk and narrowed their competitive edge in…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Build Factories, Farmers Tell OWC
AMURU – The pitiable retail prices of crops grown out of seeds supplied by Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) has remained a subject of vast disagreement between the beneficiary farmers and the program…
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Cooperatives & Communities
District Chairman Vows To Revive Cooperatives
KIKUUBE – Peter Banura took the oath on May 24 as the first elected chairman of Kikuube District and pledged to revive cooperatives to their full glory and riches. In his maiden…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Go big on Coffee, Bushenyi Farmers Told
BUSHENYI – Large-scale coffee farming could be the surest way to draw into the district a steady stream of investors from across the country and guarantee big pay-days for Bushenyi farmers in…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Nwoya Rice Farmers Hit By Falling Prices
NWOYA – A bumper harvest should be a gift to farmers hoping to profit off the huge sales but the plummeting retail prices in the last two seasons have drowned out the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Goat Plague Wipes Out 700 Animals
HOIMA – A frail district veterinary system is struggling to scale back what seems to be the worst Goat Plague in the western district of Hoima. So far, it has killed more…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Plummeting Prices Anger Cotton Farmers
KITGUM – Cotton farmers in Acholi sub region face a painful choice: whether to quit or continue growing cotton on a large scale despite the plummeting market prices. East Acholi Cooperative Union…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Maize SACCOs Get Lobbying And Marketing Skills
MASINDI – In the western district of Masindi, 15 cooperatives and two associations dealing in maize grain production have learned new lobbying and marketing skills as well as advocacy during a one-day…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Gulu Taxi Operators Protest High Taxes
GULU – Gulu Taxi Operators and Transporters’ Cooperative members staged a protest recently at the office of the city resident commissioner to draw attention to what they called high monthly taxes slapped…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira Main Market On Brink Of Ruin
LIRA – Business in the new Lira Main Market is limping and troubled, six years after the market was officially opened in 2015. Business in the market has edged down and traders…
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