livelihoods
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Cooperatives & Communities
Tororo coffee farmers receive farm tools, urged to form cooperatives
TORORO-Coffee farmers in Tororo district have a reason to smile after receiving tools from government to help in the pruning of coffee trees. Government through Uganda Coffee Development Authority [UCDA] procured tools…
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News
Kumi RDC urges youth leaders to embrace poverty eradication programmes
KUMI-Kumi Resident District Commissioner, Ahamada Washaki has urged youth leaders to embrace and rally their colleagues into embracing government’s poverty eradication programmes like Emyooga and Parish Development Model [PDM]. Washaki who made…
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Agriculture
Aduku Sub-county enacts cassava bylaw
KWANIA-Leaders of Aduku Sub-county in Kwania district have passed a bylaw to promote cassava growing, saying the crop will help households fight poverty. Under the new ordinance dubbed “Cassava Ordinance” every household…
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DINU programme to close next year
The Development Initiative for Northern Uganda [ DINU ], a Euro 150 million programme funded by the European Union [EU] to support interventions in food security, infrastructures and good governance will close…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Tororo: Processing facilities lie idle over lack of electricity
TORORO – Milling facilities established in Tororo district by government to process farmers’ produce into finished products lie unused due to lack of electricity. Naweyo Farmers’ Group in Sop Sop Subcounty are…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Bugwere cultural leader urges subjects to embrace poverty eradication programmes
KIBUKU– The Bugwere cultural leader [Ikumbania], His Highness Geoffrey Wayabire has rallied SACCO group leaders from the four districts of Budaka, Kibuku, Butebo, and Pallisa to support and engage their subordinates so…
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Govt earmarks Shs 10bln for major project in Alebtong
ALEBTONG– The government has earmarked Shs 10 billion for Local Economic Growth [LEG] project in Alebtong district to support agricultural production. Under the project, the government is constructing 10.8-kilometre road from Alebtong…
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International
UNDP and Carrefour Jordan collaborate to support cooperatives in Jordan
AMMAN-Carrefour Jordan, owned and operated by Majid Al-Futtaim Company in Jordan, recently signed an agreement with the United Nations Development Programme UNDP to support and promote the products of cooperatives in Shouneh,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kitgum cotton farmers worried as seeds fail to germinate
KITGUM-Cotton growers in Kitgum district are worried about growing the crop again after some of the seeds planted failed to germinate in the first season of planting. Last season farmers registered only…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Butaleja rice farmers oppose gov’t ban in swamps
BUTALEJA-Rice farmers in Butaleja district have opposed the plan by government to ban the growing of the grain and other food crops in swamps. The farmers argue that the government’s decision affects…
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