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Cooperatives & Communities
Take PDM as a future investment, says CAO Napak
NAPAK, November 25, 2024: James Okumu Bedijo, the Chief Administrative Officer [CAO] of Napak district, has urged the people of Northern Uganda to view the Parish Development Model [ PDM ] as…
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News
Floods devastate Otuke district, affecting over 9,000 households
OTUKE, November 12, 2024 – Floods have wreaked havoc in Otuke district in Northern Uganda, affecting 9,303 households and leaving widespread destruction in their wake. Homes, crops, and infrastructure have been devastated,…
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News
Over 370 Farmers in Soroti count losses as floods submerge crop fields
SOROTI, August 19, 2024 — Three hundred seventy-nine farmers in Kamuda Sub-county, Soroti district are grappling with significant losses following a surge in the water levels of Lake Kyoga. The hardest-hit areas…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kilak Farmers’ Cooperative Society to explore Burundian market
KAMPALA, January 17, 2024 – Kilak Farmers’ Cooperative Society Limited in Amuru district has approached Joseph Ntakirutimana, the Speaker of the East African Legislative Assembly [EALA] to help the cooperative access his…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Kwania SACCO, NGO sign MoU to promote sorghum growing
KWANIA, JANUARY 10, 2024 – Members of Aderolongo SACCO in Akali Sub-county, Kwania district have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding [MoU] with Feed the Universe Urgency Uganda, a non-governmental organisation promoting…
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Northern
CBAs get bicycles to help in monitoring farmers
LIRA, December 14, 2023 – Caritas Norway, through its Lira office, has offered 105 bicycles to community based animators [ CBAs ] to help in the monitoring of smallholder farmers in the…
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Cooperatives & Communities
China donates farm machinery worth over Shs 7bln to Butaleja district
BUTALEJA, October 6, 2023 – Butaleja district in Eastern Uganda has received tractors worth over Shs 7 billion from the government of China to boost agricultural mechanisation. The equipment includes 11 tractors,…
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Central
Ensuring quality standards: Regulators want grain farmers to have modern storage facilities
MUBENDE, September 20, 2023 – Farmers have been urged to work in groups and cooperatives and establish modern storage facilities as a measure to close quality gaps that have affected Uganda’s grain…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Mali: SAA transforms rural cooperative
BAMAKO, September 9, 2023 – Two years after Sasakawa Africa Association [ SAA ] delivered a sheller to the Nieta Cooperative in the Kamalé Kakélé Village of Western Mali, there is evidence…
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Cooperatives & Communities
Amoru Amoroto cooperative members to reap big from cassava processing
SOROTI – Farmers under Amoru Amoroto Multipurpose Cooperative Society Limited in Awaliwal Sub-county, Soroti district, expect to earn better incomes from processing raw cassava following the recent installation of milling machines. The…
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