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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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Kikuube: Councillors reject Shs 10,000 levy on sugarcane out-growers
KIKUUBE, June 4, 2024 – Kikuube district councillors have rejected a proposal by the district executive committee [DEC] to impose a Shs 10,000 tax on sugarcane out-growers, saying it is meant to…
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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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Kinyara Sugar Limited uses MDD in schools to fight cane fires, others
MASINDI, April 23, 2024 – As one of the ways to combat sugarcane fires, cane stealing, and poaching in Masindi district, Kinyara Sugar Limited has embarked on sensitising the community through music,…
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Bunyoro sugarcane farmers urged to subscribe to local coop union
MASINDI, April, 20, 2024 – Sugarcane farmers in Masindi district have been urged to join Bunyoro Sugarcane Cooperative Union Limited [BSCUL] if they are to reap big from their enterprise. The call…
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Sugarcane farmers protest Shs 10,000 tax
KIKUUBE, March 7, 2024 – Leaders of Hoima Sugar Limited Out-Growers Association in Kikuube and Hoima districts have expressed dismay after Kikuube District Local Government imposed a Shs 10,000 tax on every…
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MPs defer debate on bill over funding of proposed Sugar Council
KAMPALA, February 8, 2024 – The debate on the Sugar [Amendment] Bill, 2023 has been deferred after Members of Parliament and government failed to agree on the funding of the proposed Sugar…
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Masindi cane farmers, Kinyara Sugar Works feud deepens
MASINDI, February 1, 2024 – Farmers under their umbrella Masindi Sugarcane Out-grower’s Association Limited [MASGAL], and Kinyara Sugar Limited [KSWL] continue to be at loggerheads after the latter cut cane price to…
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New sugar millers’ licences invalid, says Deputy Attorney General
KAMPALA, December 1, 2023 – Licences that were granted to sugar manufacturers after the enforcement of the Sugar Act, 2020 are void, according to Deputy Attorney General, Jackson Kafuuzi. The Sugar Act…
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