SACCOs
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Cooperatives & Communities
Amuru RDC rejects immature animals supplied under NUSAF 3
Amuru Deputy Resident Commissioner (RDC), Osborn Oceng Geoffrey, on Friday rejected a total of 46 out of 71 oxen procured by a supplier under the Third Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF…
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Pallisa farmers decry market access problems caused by COVID-19 lockdown
Fresh agricultural produce is piling up, unconsumed, at various farm gates in Pallisa district, resulting in major losses for the farmers unable to sell their produce due to market access bottlenecks brought…
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Inadequate sensitisation blamed for slow e-voucher management system uptake
Inadequate sensitisation is slowing enrolment of farmers in Gulu district into the Electronic Voucher Management System (EVMS), a programme created by the Ministry of Agriculture, Animals Industries and Fisheries to oversee distribution…
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Masindi beekeepers seek government support with honey harvesting gear
Bee keepers in Masindi district, under their cooperative, Bainomugisa Integrated Development Area Cooperative Enterprise (BIDACE) are seeking government support in acquiring modern honey harvesting gear to enable them improve on the quality…
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Private school teachers in Tooro cry for relief aid
More than 500 teachers working in private schools in Tooro sub-region have appealed for food relief from government three months after President Yoweri Museveni ordered the closure of schools in order to…
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Ease COVID-19 trade restrictions, Karamoja Private Sector boss appeals
The director of the Karamoja Private Sector Promotion Center, Jimmy Lomokol, has appealed to the government to ease restrictions on trade in Karamoja so as to forestall an impending food crisis. Uganda’s…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kyabandara SACCO staff pin management over NSSF arrears
Kyabandara SACCO staff members have petitioned the labour officer in Sheema district, accusing the SACCO’s management of defaulting on their monthly arrears and failing to remit their National Social Security Fund (NSSF)…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Soroti fruits factory management calls for ban on juice concentrate imports
The management of Soroti Fruits Factory has called upon government to ban all the importation of juice concentrates in order to promote local consumption of the factory’s all-Ugandan concentrate. According to the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Masaka Cooperative Union gears up to resume coffee export
The Masaka Farmers’ Cooperative Union is undertaking comprehensive restructuring aimed at resuscitating its coffee export potential. Registered in 1951, the union was established to strengthen coffee farming and marketing in the greater…
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Karamoja traders welcome the re-opening of the Moroto- Nakapiripirit- Mbale road
Traders from Karamoja have described as a relief, the reopening of Moroto- Mbale- Muyembe road, saying that it will ease access to bigger markets and reduce their cost of doing business. The…
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