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Museveni urges youth to embrace fish farming
SOROTI, August 15, 2024 – President Yoweri Museveni has called on the Ugandan youth to shift from growing rice to fish farming in order to conserve the wetlands, which he said play…
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Nigeria’s food importation policy could destroy country’s agriculture, warns AfDB boss
ABUJA, July 16, 2024 – The President of the African Development Bank Group [AfDB] Dr. Akinwumi Adesina has said the decision by Nigeria’s government to allow massive food importation risks destroying the…
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Kikuube farmers ask govt to subsidise prices of agricultural inputs
KIKUUBE, June 26, 2024 – Farmers in Kikuube district have appealed to the government to subsidise the prices of agricultural inputs. The farmers said commercial farming cannot be achieved when agricultural inputs…
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Rice and oilseed outputs forecast to peak as wheat and maize face decline – new report
KAMPALA, June 14, 2024 – The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation [FAO] projects that the world’s major food commodities will be in “adequate supply” in 2024 and 2025. But the organisation warns…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Makerere researcher to Kikuube farmers: Form cooperatives to benefit from farming
KIKUUBE, June 4, 2024 – Farmers in Kikuube district have been challenged to form cooperatives or join existing ones to be able to benefit from farming as a business. The call was…
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Floods displace hundreds in Butaleja district
BUTALEJA, April 5, 2024 – Floods have hit Butaleja district, destroying properties worth millions of shillings and displaced residents. The most affected sub-counties include Himutu, Butaleja, Mazimasa, Butaleja Town Council. Travellers were seen…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kikuube rice farmers urged to form cooperatives
KIKUUBE, March 27, 2024 – Samuel Kusima Kahesi, the Kikuube district Assistant Production Officer has advised rice farmers in the district to form cooperatives, saying the cooperatives offer many benefits. He said…
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Cooperatives & Communities
West Acholi Cooperative Union roots for new rice variety
GULU, March 21, 2024 – West Acholi Cooperative Union is encouraging more of its members to grow a new variety of upland rice, saying it will boost the incomes of their households.…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Farmers advised to use improved agricultural inputs to boost production
KWEEN, February 9, 2024: Farmers in Bugisu and Sebei sub-regions have been advised to use improved agricultural inputs in order to boost farm production and productivity, hence ensuring food security in the…
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West Nile
Farmers in Adjumani urged to take advantage of Shs 2.6bln market
ADJUMANI, December 4, 2024 – Local farmers in Adjumani district including refugees have been challenged to take advantage of the Shs 2.6 billion modern market being constructed under the Uganda Support to…
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