Stories :: Category: Agriculture :: Accepted date: July 2019

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• Federation Cautions Against Whipping Coffee Farmers

  20 Jul 2019, 17:35 Comments 379 Views Kampala, Uganda Business and finance Agriculture Updates

  Byamukama was making reference to the ongoing discussion on the National Coffee bill 2018 which is currently being scrutinized by Parliament's Agriculture committee. The bill proposes the registration of farmers, capturing details of the size of land, the number of coffee trees and particulars of the farmers, coffee buyers and sellers among others.

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• Wakiso Farmers Transform SACCO’s into Investment Clubs

  20 Jul 2019, 10:28 Comments 272 Views Kampala, Uganda Human rights Business and finance Agriculture Report

  Noah Bulamba, the Chairperson of Tumbaali Multipurpose Cooperative Society in Masuliita Sub County says that the group has an investment portfolio of 38 Million Shillings generated from the sale of shares to members and low-interest loans. He adds that members borrow credit for personal investments such as the construction of family homes and businesses, adding that they are now focused on saving money for the future.

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• Kabale Farmers Reluctant to Embrace Agricultural Cluster Dev't Project

  19 Jul 2019, 13:44 Comments 172 Views Agriculture Updates

  Through the Ministry of Agriculture, the five-year USD 249-million project is aimed at enabling farmers to raise on-farm productivity, production, and marketable volumes of selected agricultural commodities in specified geographic clusters.

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• Bundesi Sub County Excluded from NUSAF III Program

  19 Jul 2019, 12:59 Comments 284 Views Bududa, Eastern Region, Uganda Agriculture Local government Misc Updates

  The residents argue that since the NUSAF3 program was rolled in their sub-county in the 2018/2019 financial year, they have never benefited, which resulted to increased levels of poverty in their homes.

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• Allocation of Maruzi Ranch to Investor Splits Lango Leaders

  18 Jul 2019, 16:48 Comments 156 Views Apac, Uganda Business and finance Agriculture Misc Updates

  Museveni’s endorsement stemmed from series of consultations with Lango Parliamentary Group, Parliament committee on agriculture, animal industry and fisheries, and Lands Ministry among others. In his recommendations, President Museveni argued that such a huge project can only be best done on government land.

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• Government Halts Distribution of Animal Vaccines Top story

  18 Jul 2019, 16:13 Comments 368 Views Kampala, Uganda Business and finance Agriculture Misc Report

  The Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Minister, Vincent Ssempijja announced the freeze on the distribution of livestock vaccines at the government owned Uganda Media Center on Thursday afternoon.

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• Museveni Advises Ngoma Pastoralists To Embrace Zero Grazing

  18 Jul 2019, 15:41 Comments 272 Views Nakaseke District, Uganda Agriculture Misc Analysis

  While addressing a rally at Ngoma sub-county headquarters, Museveni asked the pastoralists in Ngoma cattle corridor to embrace the zero-grazing where many heads of cattle can be kept within confined place and fed on pastures.

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• Gov't to Register Suppliers of Agro Inputs

  18 Jul 2019, 15:10 Comments 225 Views Kampala, Uganda Business and finance Agriculture Misc Report

  Minister Ssempijja adds that the local dealers will be certified and the list published every season to enable farmers know the right places to purchase inputs from.

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• Stray Elephants Destroy Maize Gardens in Kaabong

  18 Jul 2019, 07:44 Comments 259 Views Kaabong, Uganda Agriculture Environment Updates

  Denis Lokol, one of the affected farmers says the elephants reduced his three-acre maize Garden to nothing. Lokol said that the maize was his only hope of survival after failed harvest last year.

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• NFA Burns Poor Quality Tree Seeds Worth UGX24 Million Top story

  17 Jul 2019, 06:57 Comments 410 Views Mukono, Uganda Business and finance Agriculture Environment Report

  The NFA Communications and Public Relations Manager, Aisha Alibhai, said they usually burn low quality seeds to stop them from making it to the market through quack agents claiming to be NFA officials.

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• Let Us Look Beyond Financing If We Are to Understand Agriculture Problems – Bankers Top story

  16 Jul 2019, 21:08 Comments 399 Views Business and finance Agriculture Report

  The banker’s said the country needed to look at the entire eco-system – from loans, market access, governance, and productivity – which all lumped together make financial institutions fear the sector.

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• Uganda to Host Regional Livestock Gene Bank

  16 Jul 2019, 15:57 Comments 457 Views Kampala, Uganda Politics Business and finance Agriculture Report

  The bank will preserve animal genetic resources germplasm for 12 Countries including Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Djibouti, Eritrea, Somalia, Republic of Comoros, South Sudan and Sudan. It is one of the six established under the Global Plan of Action to conserve the world’s heritage of animal genetic resources for food and agriculture. Other banks exist in Burkina Faso, Botswana and Cameroon.

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• Uganda's Food Insecurity Worsens - UN Report

  16 Jul 2019, 15:13 Comments 337 Views Kampala, Uganda Human rights Agriculture Environment Report

  Uganda is placed amongst East African countries that suffered an increase in food crisis by almost 20 per cent. It shows that the prevalence of undernourishment increased from 24.1 per cent in 2006 to 41 per cent in 2018. This translates into an increase in the number of malnourished people from 6.9 million in 2006 to 17.6 million in 2018.

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• NEMA Plants 15,000 Shea Nut Tress in Otuke

  16 Jul 2019, 14:58 Comments 214 Views Otuke District, Uganda Agriculture Environment Misc Updates

  The seedlings are being planted at Oliduru Central Oliduru Central Forest Reserve (CFR) in Ogwete Sub-county; Otuke district on more than 200 hectares of land.

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• Delayed Gov’t Funds Stalls Sugarcane Growing in Lamwo

  16 Jul 2019, 14:35 Comments 182 Views Lamwo, Uganda Agriculture Updates

  Government through National Agricultural Advisory Services-Naads last year entered an agreement with clan leaders in Ayuu-Alali in Palabek Kal Sub-county to open land for sugar cane out-growers.

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• Uganda’s Historical Climate Data Undergoing Digitization

  15 Jul 2019, 17:39 Comments 200 Views Kampala, Uganda Agriculture Environment Science and technology Updates

  The data mostly collected on paper from various weather stations across the country remain inaccessible to the World Meteorological Authority. This, in turn, has affected modelling of the future Climate map for the country.

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• Acholi Leaders Suspicious of Vast Land Acquisitions

  15 Jul 2019, 07:30 Comments 500 Views Gulu, Uganda Politics Business and finance Agriculture Interview

  Richard Jomeo, a rights’ activist, says it is under such a tragic context that Acholi who lived in Internally Displaced People camps became incapacitated to use their land productively exposing it to grabbing.

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• Livestock Owners in Moyo Demand Compensation

  14 Jul 2019, 13:10 Comments 376 Views Moyo Town, Uganda Agriculture Security Report

  In August, President Yoweri Museveni promised that his government will compensate the victims and later compel the government of South Sudan to refund the money to Uganda government

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• Njeru Moves to Limit Sugarcane Growing

  14 Jul 2019, 11:22 Comments 268 Views Buikwe, Uganda Business and finance Agriculture Local government Report

  The municipal council proposed that sugarcane planting be limited to places near the main roads within the three divisions of the Central, Nyenga and Wakisi. The council also proposed complete abolition of sugar growing in the central division and in the areas next to the trading centres of the two divisions citing under development and insecurity in the area.

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• Pepper Farmers in Masaka Cry Foul over Fake Agro Inputs

  13 Jul 2019, 13:01 Comments 307 Views Masaka, Uganda Business and finance Agriculture Misc Analysis

  Paul Mubiru a resident of Kabonera says that he lost over 5 acres of his pepper after spraying it with fake chemicals he had purchased.

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