Omoro District
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News
Omoro district council approves 2022/23 budget
OMORO– Omoro district council has approved a budget of Shs 29.3 billion for the financial year 2022/23, with the education and sports sector taking a lion’s share. The budget was approved on…
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NRM urges religious and cultural leaders to help masses fight poverty
OMORO- Richard Todwong, the Secretary General of the ruling National Resistance Movement [ NRM ] Party, has interested the religious and cultural leaders in Omoro district and the entire Sub region to…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Farm credit giving Omoro and Amuru women farmers a lifeline
OMORO – Dero-she capital, a local community-based organization (CBO) is helping more than 170 rural women in Amuru and Omoro districts to profitably engage in agriculture by extending farm credit to them.…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kweyo Growers’ Cooperative To Acquire Grain Sorter
OMORO – Kweyo Growers’ Cooperative Society wants to acquire a grain sorter that can clean fusarium-damaged grains from bulk stocks. A grain or color sorter is a machine that helps in cleaning…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Extremely Hot Weather Hinders Alternative Feeds Project
GULU – Extremely hot weather has hampered efforts by poultry and fish farmers in parts of Acholi sub region to breed black soldier fly larvae as alternative feeds for fish and poultry.…
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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
Join Cooperatives To Defeat Middlemen
OMORO – Middlemen, according to farmers in Omoro District, are raking in all the profits and paying peanuts for unprocessed millet, sorghum, maize and soya-beans. The farmers claim they have fallen easy…
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Internal Fights Rock FRONASA Cooperative
OMORO – On the issue of membership, some members of the Front for National Salvation (FRONASA) cooperative in Omoro District have now taken positions that are at odds with the mainstream leadership…
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Cooperatives & Communities
SACCO Saving Kids With Nodding Syndrome
OMORO – Unsupported anymore by the government or Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), parents of children battling the debilitating Nodding Syndrome in the northern district of Omoro have turned to saving groups to support their…
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