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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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News
Gulu officials in conflict with boda boda operators over Shs 1.5bln
GULU-Gulu district local government and boda boda associations are involved in a dispute in which the latter has declined to remit Shs 1.584 billion in fees. The district with 11 sub-counties has…
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Uganda’s coffee exports plummet 29 percent in August due to drought
KAMPALA– Uganda’s coffee sub-sector regulator, Uganda Coffee Development Authority [UCDA] reported that the country’s coffee exports fell 28.5 percent year-on-year in August due to a drought that damaged crops in some regions…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Marketing farmers’ produce: Kwania gets Shs 600mln to rehabilitate community roads
KWANIA -Kwania district local government has received Shs 600 million from the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries [MAAIF] to rehabilitate community access roads in the district so that farmers are…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Divisive VINCI coffee deal: Court to deliver ruling in December
KAMPALA-The High Court in Kampala has set December 15, 2022, to deliver a ruling in a case filed by two Kampala lawyers who dragged government to court over the controversial coffee deal…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Global coffee exports gain slight increase, says new ICO report
KAMPALA– Global exports of green beans in June 2022 totalled 10.03 million bags, compared with 9.95mln bags in the same month of the previous year, up 0.8 percent, according to International Coffee…
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UCDA and PSFU partner to boost coffee subsector
KAMPALA – Uganda Coffee Development Authority [UCDA] and the Private Sector Foundation Uganda [ PSFU ] have signed a memorandum of cooperation aimed at growing the country’s coffee sector. Dr. Emmanuel Iyamulemye,…
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Cooperatives & Communities
PDM: Amuru farmers opt for soybean enterprise
AMURU-Most farmers in the 52 parishes in Amuru district have chosen to grow soybean as an enterprise they will embark on in line with the Parish Development Model [PDM]. So far, officials…
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National
Boosting food security: Museveni directs govt on large-scale production
KAMPALA– President Yoweri Museveni has directed the whole government led by the Office of the Prime Minister and the Ministry of Finance to implement strategic interventions in large-scale food production, especially at…
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East Africa
Rwanda’s best fairtrade coffees recognised
KIGALI– Bwishaza Coffee Cooperative and Abateraninkunga ba sholi were recently announced as the winners of the second edition of the Rwanda Kombe la Dhahabu Fairtrade Coffee Quality Contest. Bwishaza emerged as a…
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