Gulu District
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Cooperatives & Communities
Property Tax Valuation Launched In Gulu City
Authorities in Gulu City Council (GCC) have launched a fresh valuation of property tax to expand its revenue base. The exercise which kicked off on Monday 28 June,2021 is expected to be…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Falling Chia Prices Cripple Cooperative
GULU – Paicho Area Cooperative Enterprise is still grounded without any business activity, a year after it was formed with failing chia prices. These prices, once a reliable source of economic growth…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Fish Feeds Price Farmers Out Of Business
GULU – Expensive fish feeds have forced more than half of the members of West Acholi Integrated Fish Farmers Cooperative Society, WIFFICOS, out of fish farming. WAIFFICOS, a fish farmers’ cooperative, was…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lockdown: Criminal Gangs Terrorize Gulu
GULU – Livestock farmers in Gulu District are wrestling with a spate animal and poultry thefts carried out by criminal gangs taking advantage of the new lockdown announced on June 18 to…
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Cooperatives & Communities
New Market Swells Demand For Mangoes in Gulu
GULU – Farmers in the northern district of Gulu District are happy about a new market at Gulu University Faculty of Agriculture that has swelled demand for mangoes. The university’s faculty of…
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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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News
Cooperative Boosts Food Production In Acholi
GULU – West Acholi Cooperative Union is on a mission to rescue people in Acholi land from the claws of hunger and starvation by increasing food production among its members. Acholi land…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Low Soya Bean Prices Worry Acholi Farmers
GULU – Farmer groups and cooperatives in Acholi Sub region hurt by slumping of soya bean prices have been forced to rethink the future of the crop. Many farmers have turned to…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Farmers Unite To Push Shea Nuts Prices Up
GULU – For years, locals in the northern district of Gulu have earned way too little – about Shs 500, from selling a kilogram of unprocessed shea nuts, despite its invaluable nutritional…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Gulu Sells District Land To Pay Sacked Employees
GULU – Saddled with a soaring debt load, Gulu District Local Government has sold at least 30 plots of district land to pay off about Shs 6 billion in compensation to local…
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