Stories :: Category: Agriculture :: Accepted date: October 2021
Updated: 25 Oct, 10:4810:48
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Bunyangabu Leaders Seek Control of Local Economic Growth Support Project
22 Oct 2021, 12:00 Comments 229 Views Bunyangabu, Uganda Local government Agriculture UpdatesLEGs is a USD 43 million project funded by the Islamic Development Bank and implemented in 10 districts to address water for production, agriculture production, infrastructure and food security challenges, under the Ministry of Local Government.
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Farmers Cautioned Against Engaging Unregistered Middlemen
22 Oct 2021, 07:54 Comments 332 Views Kitgum, Uganda Northern Business and finance Agriculture UpdatesThe planned registration according to the leaders seeks to protect local farmers in the district from harmful exploitation by middlemen who buy cheaply and resale the produces at abnormally high prices.
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Suspected Karimojong Rustler Gunned Down in Kitgum
21 Oct 2021, 15:19 Comments 200 Views Kitgum, Uganda Agriculture Security Northern UpdatesThe Orom East Sub-County LC III Chairperson, Bruno Nelson told Uganda Radio Network in an interview that the deceased was gunned down between Akurumo and Pire junction while fleeing with a stolen cow together with two others.
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Acholi Leaders Issue Ultimatum, Maintain Rigid Position on Nomadic Balalo
20 Oct 2021, 16:09 Comments 356 Views Agriculture Business and finance Security UpdatesPrior to the 2021 general elections, President Yoweri Museveni advised all Balalo pastoralists who keep sizeable numbers of cattle to acquire land and fence it to restrict animals from encroaching on community gardens.
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One Arrested For Allegedly Killing Sembabule Farmer
18 Oct 2021, 21:38 Comments 261 Views Sembabule, Uganda Crime Agriculture Security UpdatesColeb Muhumuza, 42, a resident of Mazinga village, was attacked on Sunday night on his way home. The killers took an unknown sum of money from the deceased before tossing his body in the community pond where it was found by residents on Monday morning.
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Pork Consumption Causes Boom in Nakasongola Pig Farming
18 Oct 2021, 19:53 Comments 418 Views Nakasongola, Uganda Agriculture UpdatesGerald Kitaka Sserubombwe a prominent pig trader in Nakasongola town says that residents have embraced rearing pigs because it's easy to sell them and get money to respond to an emergency unlike other animals.
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Committee Investigating Agricultural Fakes Doesn't Know Extent of the Problem
17 Oct 2021, 17:38 Comments 326 Views Kampala, Uganda Agriculture UpdatesMuwema who is also Director Legal Affairs at the ACN said Uganda has a batch of laws aimed at averting counterfeits but enforcing the laws has been difficult due to general lack of will by both government and dealers in agricultural inputs.
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Kyotera Sensitizing Farmers as New Coffee Law, Causes More Discomfort
17 Oct 2021, 12:22 Comments 323 Views Agriculture Business and finance Local government UpdatesAccording to John Paul Mpalanyi, the Kyotera County MP, who is spearheading the campaign, the majority of coffee farmers are worried that the legislation is intended to give more powers to the government to cripple their efforts.
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Gov't Impounds Several Tonnes of Immature Fish
16 Oct 2021, 16:06 Comments 405 Views Crime Agriculture East Africa UpdatesThe trucks, containing immature fish criminally harvested in Uganda and illegally repackaged in Kenya and destined for the Democratic Republic of Congo were impounded at Mpondwe border in Kasese on October 10 and were on Wednesday driven to the Fisheries Directorate head office in Entebbe pending further investigations.
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Masaka Farmers Get Cassava Drying Machine to Add Value, Improve Incomes
16 Oct 2021, 15:08 Comments 295 Views Masaka, Uganda Agriculture Business and finance Environment UpdatesThe ugx35m-machine is a donation from Vi-Agroforestry, a development organisation fighting poverty and climate change in collaboration with farmer’s groups and organisations, advising and training farmers in sustainable agricultural land management.
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Government Urged to Invest in Early Climate Warning and Agricultural Research
16 Oct 2021, 11:33 Comments 332 Views Mbarara City, Mbarara, Western Region, Uganda Agriculture Health UpdatesDr Sameul Mugasi, Executive Director for the National Agricultural Advisory Services and a member of the National Agricultural Research Organisation council says food would be in plenty if the importance of research in the modern world is realized.
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Army Impounds Four Trucks Allegedly Carrying Immature Fish
13 Oct 2021, 23:06 Comments 400 Views Entebbe, Uganda Agriculture Crime East Africa UpdatesThe trucks, destined for the Democratic Republic of Congo, were impounded in Kasese and driven today to the Fisheries Directorate head office in Entebbe pending further investigations.
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Sorry State of Roads Irks Bunyangabu Farmers
11 Oct 2021, 13:22 Comments 344 Views Local government Agriculture Western Updates“Whereas our district is known as one of the leading agricultural areas particularly when it comes to Matooke and coffee production, we feel deprived because of the status of our roads. We were happy that the season had changed and we would sell our produce at a higher price but this has not worked because vehicles cannot pass through any road to access our produce,” he said.
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Kitagwenda LC V Chairperson Stops Issuance of Boat Licenses
10 Oct 2021, 12:13 Comments 420 Views Kitagwenda, Uganda Local government Agriculture Western UpdatesFishermen accuse Evelyn Atuhaire, the Kitagwenda district fisheries officer of connivance and illegally giving out fishing boat licenses to non landing site residents.
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Three More Irrigation Projects Launched In Kalungu
10 Oct 2021, 09:21 Comments 305 Views Kalungu District, Uganda Agriculture Business and finance Environment UpdatesVincent Walugembe, the Chairperson of Kwekulakulanya Agriculture Group, says that they have over 60 acres of land containing coffee and other crops. He says that irrigating their plantations using watering cans has been a time-wasting and tiresome task.
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Farmers Appeals for Financial Support to Exploit Multi-Million Government Solar Irrigation Scheme
10 Oct 2021, 07:42 Comments 332 Views Mukono, Uganda Environment Business and finance Agriculture EditorialEach of the planned sites will comprise a water source, transmission pipeline, storage tanks of 87, 000 litres, distribution networks for irrigation, and on-farm irrigation system network. Nexus Green Chief Executive Officer, Rikki Verma says the scheme can support over 30 farmers with five acreages each.
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African Swine Fever Reported in Rukiga
10 Oct 2021, 07:25 Comments 324 Views Rukiga, Western Region, Uganda Agriculture UpdatesAccording to Bukoosi, the veterinary office was compelled to announce the ban because of the death of 46 pigs in Kamwezi sub-county and another 100 in Kashambya.
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Over 900 to Benefit from the AGRI-LED Cage Fish Project in Kabarole
9 Oct 2021, 13:15 Comments 367 Views Agriculture Local government Western UpdatesGrace Kazigati, the NAADs coordinator of Kabarole district, says that cages are intended to enable communities near creator lakes to engage in fish farming with an aim of boosting their household incomes.
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UPDF Joins UWA Rangers to Repulse Stray Elephants
7 Oct 2021, 21:27 Comments 320 Views Kitgum, Uganda Security Agriculture Northern UpdatesAccording to Maj. Terimulungi, the deployment is not only meant to repulse the stray elephants as a way of protecting the most vulnerable citizens from losing their crops, lives and property to wildlife but also to protect and conserve the endangered wildlife.
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