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International
Debt-service payments put biggest squeeze on poor countries since 2000-World Bank
KAMPALA-The poorest countries eligible to borrow from the World Bank’s International Development Association [IDA] now spend over a tenth of their export revenues to service their long-term public and publicly guaranteed external…
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International
India: First phase of co-op database to be ready next month
NEW DELHI-The process of making a National Cooperative Database and the first phase will be completed by December 2022, according to the Indian Cooperative. The Ministry of Cooperation on its Twitter handle,…
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Agriculture
GULU: NARO courts more farmers into growing new rice variety
GULU-The National Agricultural Research Organization [NARO] is courting farmers in Gulu district to join in the massive production of Namche 5 rice variety. The rice variety, which grows and yields well in…
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International
Indian Priti Patel elected Vice Chairperson of ICA-AP Women Committee
NEW DELHI– Indian candidate Priti Patel was days ago elected as the new Vice Chairperson of International Cooperative Alliance, Asia Pacific [ICA-AP] Women Committee. Patel won the ICA-AP elections with a whopping…
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International
Indian co-operators remember nationalist Sardar Patel
NEW DELHI-The top cooperatives in the country including Amul, Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited [IFFCO] and National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India [NAFED], among others, remembered the Iron Man of the…
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International
Global coffee market demanding higher quality over higher volumes
LONDON– The global coffee market is undergoing a transformation that will result in higher quality and more expensive coffees, but not a rise in overall trade volume, as consumers increasingly use single…
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International
Indian successful dairy co-ops awarded by federation
NEW DELHI-During the recent Eastern and North-Eastern Cooperative Dairy Conclave 2022 in Gangtok, many state level and a few district-level dairy co-ops bagged the National Cooperative Dairy Federation of India Ltd [NCDFI]…
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Africa
Zambia exploring ways of making co-ops self-reliant
LUSAKA-The government of Zambia is exploring ways of ensuring that cooperatives in that country are self-reliant so that they stop depending on state coffers. According to Lusaka Times, the government of Zambia…
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International
IDF WDS 2022: Co-ops will make India 3rd economic power-Minister
NEW DELHI – While Prime of India Narendra Modi early this week launched the International Dairy Federation’s World Dairy Summit 2022 [ IDF WDS 2022 ], Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Global coffee exports down 8.8 percent in July 2022
KAMPALA– Global exports of green beans in July 2022 were 9.04 million bags, compared with 9.91mln bags in the same month of the previous year, which is down 8.8 percent, according to…
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