Over the last five years, the program has procured and distributed inputs like Robusta coffee seedlings, heifers, hybrid goats, piglets, farm tractors, pasture feed seedlings, fertilizers, chicks and rabbits, irrigation equipment and components to beneficiaries in various parts of the country.
Read more ...Growth for 2019 is now predicted to be a moderate 2.7 per cent, down markedly from 3.4 per cent in 2018. Developing countries are likely to be hit hard, particularly those whose economies rely heavily on markets likely to be affected by any additional tariffs and subsequent retaliatory measures.
Read more ...They attribute the increment to the fact that most of the beans on the market are imported from neighbouring countries, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo following substantial yield reductions in Busigu and Sebei regions early in the year.
Read more ...In a letter dated 17th May addressed to Kyamulibwa prison officer in- charge Harriet Gonza, copied to Masaka Prison Regional Commander, Kyamulibwa town council chairperson and the Sub-county chief, Buganda Land Board has halted the development of the disputed piece of land by Harriet Gonza, the officer in charge of Kyamulibwa prison.
Read more ...Under the new government guidance to farmers, harvesting should commence from June 15 for the June-July season and December 15 for the December - January season. It is hoped that the new dates will improve the quality of produce in the country and guarantee attractive prices at the farm gate and world market.
Read more ...Francis Lokiru, the LC3 chairman for Nakapiripririt Town Council says the cassava cuttings were distributed when they were already dry. He says they are going to burn them in the presence of OWC officials to send a message to higher authorities.
Read more ...The coffee seedlings worth over 500 million shillings were supplied through the Uganda Coffee Development Authority UCDA and distributed to the coffee farmers in Nebbi and Zombo districts in the 2018/2019 financial year.
Read more ...They say defiance of residents to bury or burn the carcass of animals killed by the disease is complicating their efforts.
Read more ...The debate comes barely a month after a declaration by agriculture ministry officials that the government was considering a ban on Nomadic Pastoralism in order to promote crop farming and paddock grazing in order to reduce food insecurity and increase family incomes.
Read more ...The budget for the project is 135 million shillings and the women had planned to hatch 12,000 chicks per month.
Read more ...According to Dr. Nguma, they had expected to carry out a mass vaccination of animals with 60,000 doses of vaccines from the Food and Agricultural Organization-FAO but the vaccines are yet to arrive.
Read more ...Majbrit Holm Jakobsen, the Head of Mission at the Royal Danish Embassy of Denmark in Uganda said NURI is one of the eight programs within DANIDA portfolio allocated the largest budget allocation to deliver the desired results.
Read more ...Godfrey Masaba, the OWC Officer in Sironko District, says they received from the office of the Resident District Commissioner indicating that Wadoba connived with the LC III Chairperson to sell off the animal he received a month ago.
Read more ...Shafick Mwanje, the Excel Salama Foundation delivered the relief food to the starving families on Sunday. He said the food relief is meant to help the hunger stricken families especially of vulnerable elderly persons.
Read more ...It shows that in 2018, farmers of rice, fibre crops like cotton flowers, tropical and subtropical fruits like bananas and plantains, avocado, mangoes, papayas, and pineapples and vanilla, earned more money because their prices went up.
Read more ...The development follows severe dry conditions at the start of the 2019 March-May season, preceded by the harsh dry season of January-February 2019 and poor October-December 2018 spots of rain, which have impacted planting and germination of crops in several areas of the country.
Read more ...Muhammed Munyasi, a businessman dealing mainly in agro-produce attributes the alarming food prices to poor storage mechanisms used in the country.
Read more ...The Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Museveni indicated that SDF comes at a time when government cannot compromise on skills development and would seek to operationalize the fund faster now that pilot has proved successful.
Read more ...Godfrey Largo Oringa, the Pader district LC 5 Chairperson says the disputed ranch is being controversially encroached into by a section of local investors who are diverting away from the original purpose for which the ranch was given.
Read more ...Recently, Sembabule district received 86 sacks of cassava cuttings for distribution to farmers under the Operation Wealth Creation-OWC, a government program aimed at enhancing household participation in commercial agriculture.
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