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Agriculture
Catholic youth urged to embrace commercial farming after receiving tractor
SOROTI – The youth in Soroti Catholic Diocese have been urged to embrace commercial farming in a bid to fight poverty and unemployment. This comes after the youth received a tractor from…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Otuke farmers’co-ops to boost production of oil seeds and rice
OTUKE-At least six farmers’ cooperative societies in Otuke district are recruiting more farmers to boost the production of oil seeds such as sunflower, soybeans, simsim, and rice next year. The cooperatives which…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Bukwo maize farmers aim at value addition
BUKWO – Maize farmers in Bukwo district are struggling to pool resources together to buy machinery that would enable them add value to their maize. The farmers under Kapsukwar Farmers’ SACCO, totaling…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Global coffee exports down 2.5 percent in October
Global exports of green beans in October 2022 totalled 8.5 million bags, compared with 8.72mln bags in the same month of the previous year, down 2.5 percent, according to the latest International…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Acan Kwete Farmers’ Co-operative Society gets storage facility
OTUKE-The Minister for Northern Uganda, Grace Freedom Kwiyucwiny has commissioned a storage facility for Acan Kwete Farmers’ Co-operative Society in Olilim town council, Otuke district. The farmers’ storage facility constructed for bulking…
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News
Schools urged to engage in agricultural practices
SOROTI– Schools in Uganda have been asked to actively participate in agricultural practices as one of the ways of preparing the learners to engage in production after school. The call was made…
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News
EU refurbishes testing lab, poultry hatchery worth Shs 340mln
LIRA-The European Union [EU] through Development Initiative for Northern Uganda [DINU] has renovated a dilapidated seed testing laboratory and poultry hatchery worth Shs 340 million at Ngetta Zonal Agricultural Research and Development…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Lira cooperative receives over Shs 900mln for capacity building
LIRA – Itek Okile Rice Growers’ Multipurpose Cooperative Society [IORGMCS] in Itek Sub-county, Lira district has received Shs 912 million from the United States African Development Foundation [USADF] to build the capacity…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Africa coffee exports drop 5.1 percent as drought hits Uganda
KAMPALA-Exports of all forms of coffee from Africa decreased by 5.1 percent to 13.73 million bags in coffee year 2021/22 from 14.48mln bags in the previous coffee year, International Coffee Organisation […
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Cooperatives & Communities
Gulu Archdiocese struggles as criminal gangs raid model cassava farm
GULU– Gulu Archdiocese is struggling to promote cassava commercialisation and value addition in Acholi Sub-region after criminal gangs recently raided its demonstration farm, uprooting the cassava tubers, leaving the farm empty. The…
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