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AFC Takes Centre Stage with Six Prestigious Awards at the Global Banking & Markets Africa Awards 2025
CAPE TOWN, March 28, 2025 — Africa Finance Corporation [AFC], the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has been recognised for its outstanding contributions to Africa’s financial and capital markets with six prestigious…
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Sugar cooperatives in India face grim season, but optimism grows for next year
NEW DELHI, March 19, 2025 — The 2024-25 sugar season in India has been marked by uncertainty, with fluctuating production estimates and significant setbacks in key sugar-producing states. Initial industry projections placed…
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LoP advocates for fair sugarcane pricing
KAMPALA, November 29, 2024 – The Leader of the Opposition in Parliament [LoP] Joel Ssenyonyi has demanded that government intervene and regulate sugarcane prices in the country, saying that the current price…
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Uganda’s sugar exports to Kenya drop as Rwanda leads in EAC
KAMPALA, October 7, 2024 — Uganda’s sugar exports to Kenya have decreased by 16.2 percent to just 18 metric tonnes in the last nine months to September 2024. Authorities attribute this drop…
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Gov’t to protect farmers as sugarcane prices fall
KAMPALA, August 16, 2024 – Government intends to support sugarcane farmers in the country to add value to their produce as a measure against price fluctuations. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and…
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IYC 2025: IFFCO boss invites cooperators worldwide
NEW DELHI, July 14, 2024 – The Managing Director of Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited [ IFFCO ] has issued a video invitation to cooperators from across the world to participate in…
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Hundreds lose jobs as Mayuge sugar factory is closed
NAMAYINGO, June 26, 2024 – Over 600 people in Namayingo district have lost their jobs following government’s rushed closure of CN Sugar factory that was still undergoing construction. The closure of the…
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Cane union drags Kinyara Sugar to court over disruption of operations
MASINDI, June 12, 2024 – Bunyoro Sugarcane Farmers Cooperative Union Limited [BUSFACOU] has run to court seeking a permanent injunction stopping Kinyara Sugar Works Limited from disrupting their operations at the weighbridges…
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War-torn Ukraine earns free-trade deal to protect its agri-food sector
BRUSSELS, May 14, 2024 – The European Council [EC] has approved the suspension of import duties and quotas on Ukrainian and Moldovan exports to the EU for another year as part of…
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Luwero factory now buys sugarcane from Bunyoro farmers
MASINDI, April 30, 2024 – Bunyoro Sugarcane Cooperative Union Limited [BSCUL] in Masindi district, and Victoria Sugar Limited in Luwero district, recently entered into a memorandum of understanding [MoU], enabling one of the…
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