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Nwoya Suspects To Be Invaded By Tsetse Flies

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NWOYA – Tsetse flies have reportedly invaded Nwoya District as livestock farmers turn to burnt oil to protect animals from the invasion.

The flies have invaded the two Sub Counties of Koch Goma and Lii for the last three weeks which has reportedly affected more than 2,000 herds of cattle in the area.

The flies, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) affects both animals and humans which causes Nagana in cattle and sleeping sickness in humans which is endemic in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Bosco Cankara, a livestock farmer in Agonga Parish from Koch Goma Sub County says he was unable to take his cattle for grazing since the area was highly infested with the flies.

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Cankara explained that the deadly attack on the animals occurs in the morning and evening hours which has forced the farmers in the areas to protect their animals using burnt oil.

However, he noted that oil protects the animals for less than 20 minutes from the bite, a situation he described as burdensome which forced him to sell off three of his cows.

Patrick Kinyera, the Local Council II for Agonga Parish has acknowledged the problem in the area adding that he equally had 7 of his cows facing a similar challenge.

Emanuel Okwir, the District Veterinary Officer (DVO) for Nwoya has confirmed the incident but declined to provide details on the phenomenon.

Emmanuel Orach, the Nwoya District Chairman disclosed in a recent interview with theCooperator that the district has written to the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Industry about the problem.

When contacted, Charlotte Kemigyisha, the Public Relations Officer of the Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Industry says the team will visit the area early next week to assess the situation.

The pandemic according to the World Health Organization had badly hit Sub Saharan Africa in 1998 with over 40,000 cases reported in the region in both humans and animals.

The infection has reportedly reduced to only 992 in 2019 after 50 years with Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) accounting for 70% of all cases in the Region.

South Sudan, Zambia, Angola, Malawi, Chad reported between 10 to 100 cases while Uganda, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Tanzania reported between 1 to 10 cases in the year.

Many of the affected population according to the report live in remote rural areas with limited access to adequate health care services.

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Cooperative Members Urged To Save For Old Age

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YUMBE– The members of Aupi Cooperative Saving and Credit Society Limited operating in Yumbe Town, West Nile Region has been urged to save for their old age benefits if they are to leave in a conducive environment.

The call was made by teams of Uhuru Institute for Social Development (TUI) during a two day-training of more than 80 members of Aupi Cooperative in Yumbe district on savings, finance mobilization, old age planning and surplus management of the Aupi Cooperative members.

One of the trainers Jenifer Akim, the Deputy Commercial Officer Nebbi District says, there is an urgent call for cooperative members to save for their old age benefits when they are still able to raise funds for their up keep in future.

She said the only way the elderly people could plan for their old age is by reducing the number of dependents in order to encourage savings for old age benefits which most times is impossible due to the number of mouths they have to feed.

She says, the elderly persons should empower the girl child through education and allow girls to own land which is a factor of production for commercial agriculture to support them during their old age.

“At your old age, shift to the village and leave your big house and rent part of your house to earn a leaving during your old age to avoid begging your ground children for upkeep,” Akim said.

Akim added that most retired civil servants and powerful business men are dying of frustration because they have failed to plan for their old age which should have made them live happy lives, people should save for their future benefits.

Meanwhile, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Uhuru Institute for Social Development Leonard Okello says the cooperative members should start working for innovative ideas which supports their old age benefits.

He said by 2050, only 10% of the population will be in the villages but 80% will flock towns so, if a wise decision is taken by cooperators to build rental houses in town, he will leave a good life in future.

“You must prepare yourself for changes and never contribute huge sum of money to support weddings, but plan for your old age properly to distance yourself from begging,” Okello said.

According to Amana Small, one of the Aupi Cooperative members who graduated from a grass thatched house to a three-bedroomed house says, she started selling produce after her husband abandoned her with four children which made her to start thinking about old age savings two years ago.

Small adds that being in produce business for more than five years has taught her a lesson to plan for her children and old age benefits since she is a single mother.

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Small who is enjoying the fruits of her sweat narrated that she started the business with Shs 2 million but has profit of more than Shs 8 million with a fully finished house and a Bajaj motorcycle to boost her transport.

“I’m planning to put rental houses to facilitate the school fees of my children since we were abandoned and their father have not been supporting me with their education such that my old age can be addressed by children,” Amana said.

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Public-Private Partnership For Shea Value Addition

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KAMPALA – Lecturers at Makerere University have suggested a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) approach to develop the shea butter value chain in Uganda, for more earnings, both locally and internationally.

These trees are natural perennial plants and commonly found in northern and eastern Uganda.

Its butter is a famed moisturizer nationally and internationally, because it contains vitamins A, E and F. Other people use this butter for cooking among other things. In Acholi, shea nut trees are held in high cultural regard. The butter is used for rituals, body lotion, medicine and cooking.

Prof. Joseph Obua from the department of Forestry, Biodiversity and Tourism at Makerere University, compared shea nuts with coffee, saying they are all flagship commodities with high market values, providing income to farmers and foreign exchange for the country.

However, Prof Obua argued that shea nuts have not been given the attention it deserves.

“The Ministry of Trade Industries and Cooperatives is working together with private actors like cooperative unions and coffee exporters; shea has not yet brought together private and public actors to work together,” Prof Obua said.

Prof. Obua argued that although some people will argue that coffee is grown, while shea is wild, part of the export earnings from this butter can be invested in research and development of shea trees to enhance its productivity and the market value.

“Through Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), 1% of export earnings from coffee is given to UCDA and 10 % of that amount which is about Shs 2 billion per annum is given to National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) which is passed on to National Coffee Research Institute (NCRI) to carryout research on coffee and enhance its productivity and market value. Can we develop a shea nut development authority like UCDA to enhance the productivity and market value of shea products?” he asked.

According to Prof Obua, unlike coffee which is exported as a raw material, shea is exported in processed form, meaning it can have a comparative and competitive advantage over coffee.

He added that the total number of households in Eastern and Northern Uganda involved in managing shea on their farmlands, processing shea and selling its products could even be greater than the number of coffee farmers in this country.

Statistics indicate that the number of coffee farmers in terms of households is 1.7 million, and the acreage is nearly 400,000 hectares. Shea parklands cover 45 districts in Eastern and Northern Uganda, approximately about 30 % of the entire number of districts in the country.

“Therefore, in many respects, shea deserves to have similar organizations like UCDA to leverage greater support for it,” Prof. Obua said.

Dr. Kenneth Okia, an Associate professor at Makerere University, also said sustaining shea productivity and the industry requires recognizing the primary producers, especially women, who have managed the resources for generations.

According to Dr. Okia, there is need to tap into women and youth to undertake value addition, to provide a push back for conservation and improvement in land and tree tenure arrangements in parklands for sustainability.

Dr. Francis Omujal, a Research Officer at Ministry of Health, expressed concern that only about 25% of shea butter products goes for export, leaving a greater percentage to be sold within the local community.

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According to Dr. Omujal, the technology for shelling and processing these nuts should be developed for better results and more income.

“Right now, up to 15% of oils is left in the shea nut cake, because the technology being used cannot extract all the oil. This is a huge loss,” Dr. Omujal said.

These suggestions were raised during the first World Shea Day that was commemorated for the first time in Uganda on Friday, July 16th, 2021. The online event, which was organized by Agro Value Added Association and Extension Services, AVAAES, in collaboration with Makerere University attracted more than 150 participants from all over Africa.

The celebration was based on the theme; Enhancing productivity and market potential of Nilotica Shea for improved livelihoods: Take action now.

However, Jaspher Okello, an official from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, (MOSTI) said some interventions aimed at increasing productivity in the shea value chain are already underway, starting this financial year.

Okello explained that Shea Development Project, will cover stakeholders’ analysis, feasibility study and stakeholder mapping and setting up an office space to begin with structural design in the first year of the five-year period.

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Uganda Registers Increase In Coffee Exports

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UGANDA – Uganda has again registered an increase in coffee exports in June 2021, despite an overall contraction in international trade as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A report from the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) yesterday indicates that Uganda bagged a total of 618,38860 kilograms of coffee valued at US$58.56million were exported in June 2021 at an average weighted price of US$1.58kilogram, 1cent lower than US$1.59/kilo in May 2021.

This is the second time Uganda is recording an increase in coffee export as the country registered an increase of 477,561 60-kilogram bags worth US $45.87M [Shs 171bn] in March 2020.

However, according to Dr. Lyamulemye Emmanuel, the Managing Director, UCDA, this is the first time Uganda is recording the highest amount of coffee ever exported in a single month since 1991.

“I am pleased to report that in Financial Year 2020/21 the coffee sub-sector rose above the year’s challenges to record the highest number of exports. In June alone, Uganda exported 618,388 60 kg bags of coffee worth US$ 58.56 million and now a total of 6.1 million 60 kg bags of coffee worth US$ 559.26 million in a single month in 30 years.” Says Lyamulemye

He says the export figures represent an increase of 47.04% and 46.63% in quantity and value respectively compared to the same month last year.

“By comparing quantity of coffee exported by type in the same month of last coffee year (June2020), Robusta increased by 63.89% and 72.56% in quantity and value respectively, while Arabica exports decreased in both quantity and value by 29.93% and 23.16% respectively” says Lyamulemye

The International Coffee Organization (ICO) Composite Indicator price increased by 4.6% to 141.03US cents/lbin June 2021 from US cents/lb134.78US cents/lbin May 2021.

According to UCDA’s Managing Director, accomplishment is attributed to increased yields from newly planted coffee, favorable weather and a positive trend in global coffee.

He says the government’s effort in supplying over 1.5 billion seedlings as an addition to the already existing 220 million coffee plantings has tremendously led to the increase of coffee exportation.

“Over the last five years, the government has deliberately been delivering free coffee seedlings to the farmers and many of them who took on the planting have now increased the production. But the increase also came with more support in extension services by providing farmers with knowledge to understand that coffee is a business which can actually transform their livelihood” Lyamulemye explains

He also says that Uganda’s coffee earned a high demand in international countries as many people do survive on it during Covid-19.

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“Whereas all over US were moving in a lockdown, people in Italy and United States who were used to drinking coffee in the restaurants were actually having home deliveries and that brought more volumes from Ugandan market of coffee” says Lyamulemye

UCDA is a statutory body established to facilitate increase in quality coffee production, productivity, and consumption. So, the increase of export is part of the journey to Uganda Coffee Development Authority’s milestone says Dr Lyamulemye.

We appreciate our stakeholders including the smallholder farmers, processors, traders, roasters, exporters and consumers of Uganda coffee for this feat. My appreciation also goes out to the UCDA staff who work tirelessly to ensure that we are an agency that is firmly in control of its future and its aspiration to achieve the target of producing 20 million bags by 2025.” he said.

Lyamulemye however says the coffee sector still suffers with lack of enough containers for coffee loading during the Covid-19 pandemic.

“We had a challenge of few containers to load coffee. This was because cargo trucks were being delayed at the borders as drivers were being tested for Covid-19”

UCDA anticipates that in a year 2025-2030 Uganda should reach the 20million bags a year export target with this financial year’s 600 million bags representing 30% of estimate.

“In the next five years, we want to see coffee exports reaching 20 million bags. We want to phase out the distribution of seedlings and focus on productivity per tree. We also want to see Ugandans appreciating a cup of coffee and the consumption moving from the current 6% per capita to 15%. It is our dream as UCDA to see Ugandans walking on the streets and in villages feeling proud to be involved in the coffee value chain”. Lyamulemye emphasized.

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Staff Housing Project At Gulu Hospital Still Stalling

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GULU – The construction of multibillion staff housing at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital has failed to get complete eight years after it was commissioned.

The hospital had secured Shs 6.8 billion from the government through the Ministry of Health in 2014 for the building which would accommodate at least 54 of its medical workers.

Block Technical Services, a local construction company was awarded a 3-year contract in 2014 and the building was expected for use in late 2017.

The Hospital Acting Principal Administrator Otim Onegiu James told theCooperator in a recent interview that the building has not been completed eight years later.

Otim explained that the hospital has extended the contract twice to the contractor but the work is still far from completion following a limited disbursement of the funds from the government.

He however disclosed that the Ministry of Finance has approved 1.2 billion in this financial year for continuity of the work with about Shs 2 billion already spent in the past years of the construction.

“We don’t know how long it will take to complete the building but if there is anything the hospital urgently needs now, it is to offer accommodation for staff looking at their meagre pay,” Otim added.

The Hospital Senior Principal Nursing Officer Norah Nakato however noted that the hospital has lost control on time management during this period of Covid-19 pandemic.

“Majority are renting in the outskirts of the City where they can afford but this is a nurse you must call for an emergency and that is how we always lose the golden minute to save a life,” Nakato recounted.

Though she could not give details of the number of lives the hospital could have lost with poor time management, she says that the time management is life saving which the hospital has missed.

She identified the most affected units as maternity, the acute children’s’ ward, psychiatric ward, genecology and the general medicine ward that need urgent responses and attendance.

Some of the medical workers spoke to theCooperator on the challenges they battle with from home to hospital for work.

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Atoo Samuel, an enrolled nurse attached to the outpatient department says that he has to move from home to the hospital about 4 kilometres away.

“I have to fore go lunch in order to save some money for rent and the family and foot to the hospital daily which would then cost me over 60,000 shillings for transport” Atoo added.

His counterpart Madia Ezira who works in a psychiatric department says he had spent more than Shs 1.5 million in the one year he spent outside but was lucky to be offered a single room from the hospital.

“Even if I can’t bring my family here to live with me, I am happy that I can save some money now and share with them” Madia speaks with relief to theCooperator.

With a total of 331 staff, the hospital is currently accommodating 20 of the medical workers, most of whom are doctors, nurses and midwives according to the Human Resource Department.

Last Friday afternoon, the construction work was going on with a handful of a technical team on the site but the site supervisor declined to speak on the progress of the work.

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OWC to Cluster Beneficiaries For Value Addition

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GULU – The second phase of Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) is aiming at clustering beneficiaries into primary and secondary societies, to enable them add value to their products and increase the market.

This is according to Lt Gen Angina Charles, the out-going Deputy Chief Coordinator (DCC) of OWC.

While handing over office to the new DCC, Maj Gen Kavuma Sam at the 4th Division Barracks in Gulu City; Maj Gen Kavuma said the second phase of OWC which started this year running to 2026, will ensure that benefiting households that operated individually, are put into groups of about 30 households, depending on enterprise choices that do well in their environment, for them to reap more benefits.

“If we are able to work around that, then whatever facilities will be shared in common. They can then do some value addition and not sell their produce in raw form, which fetches a low price,” Angina said.

Angina, also noted that Uganda loses a lot of waste that could be turned into manure, animals, and poultry feeds, because of selling unprocessed farm produce.

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“For instance, people carry a whole banana from Mbarara to Kampala, yet people in Kampala just need the peeled bananas. All these peels we bring to Kampala only burden KCCA and the government again has to spend money to collect the waste, which should have remained in the farms to be used as manure,” he said.

Angina reasoned that when benefitting farmers are clustered, they will produce in bulk and this will make it easier to get for them big and better markets, as bigger markets require a huge volume.

“Depending on the volume of their production, it will be easy to lobby for the cottage industry, medium industry, or major industry,” Angina said.

He also said, “Having industries would mean that even if there is no market for crops like maize; we can process it to posho, baby’s food, cornflakes, ethanol or sanitizers, to fit demand in the internal market. So, there is quite a lot that can be achieved.”

“The residues can still be processed to animal and poultry feeds. All these were lost because we would sell all the maize in grains, and we lost all the benefits that could have caused economic transformation for our people,” Angina further remarked.

On why OWC has not had a great impact on the lives of beneficiaries, Angina said the problem was because the resources have been scattered and given to beneficiaries who were not ready or willing to take up a particular enterprise. In the second phase, inputs will be procured by the beneficiaries, to synchronize their planting.

The first phase of OWC acted like a vehicle for enhancing the effectiveness of agricultural reforms in the households and community with more emphasis on input distribution and enterprise development.

However, there have been numerous complaints of distribution of poor-quality seeds compounded by late, or early distribution.

“Resources went into input procurements, and yet during distribution, you find that the beneficiaries are not ready and all those inputs went to waste as the beneficiaries dumped them in the compound or put them under verandas.

“Now OWC will not be blamed for taking inputs too early or too late, because the money will arrive in time and farmers who are organized will buy what they want depending on when it will rain in their area. Complaints of buying poor quality inputs will not be there because now the traceability of who has brought the input at the farm service center and agriculture authority will be there to certify,” he said.

Kavuma, the new DCC said there is need to also change the mindset of the beneficiaries.

“As we carry on with the activity of helping our people, we need to mobilize beneficiaries, enter their brains, and show them the opportunities that both God and the government have given, otherwise, they will remain poor,” Kavuma said.

Mindset change, he said, was what has been lacking since OWC started.

OWC was launched by President Museveni in July 2013 in Nakaseke district with the main objective of raising household incomes by transforming subsistence farmers into commercial farmers.

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Nebbi Municipality Generates Local Revenue In Lockups Giveaway

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NEBBI – Nebbi Municipal Council has generated more than Shs 200 million local revenue in lockups give away to local developers for the construction of taxi and bus terminals.

The construction of taxi and bus terminals in Nebbi municipality on Nebbi – Arua road is one of the strategies aimed at boosting local revenue for the council in an effort to implement the basic priority
areas of garbage collection and road maintenance.

Nebbi taxi and bus terminals construction site was leased in a Public Private Partnership (PPP) by the municipal council for the periods of 15 years and thereafter, the council will take over the management of the terminals.

The construction of taxi and bus terminals according to authorities, will take the period of two to three months to be completed.

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According to Abwooli Makune William , the Town Clerk Nebbi Municipality, Shs 200 million raised by council will be used to re-activate some of the activities which the council failed to implement due to budget cut in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Makune says, 534 developers each paid Shs 500,000 for a 4 by 4, and 4 by 3metre room, 418 developers paid Shs 200,000 meanwhile 8 developers each paid Shs 3 million each for the bus terminal space of 28 by 30 metres .

“Last year, the council realized a drastic decline in revenue collections instead of collecting the projected amount of Shs 790 million from local revenue, the council only collected Shs 500 million but if the taxi and bus terminals are completed, the council will come up with additional revenue to boost local revenues,” Abwooli said.

His Lordship the Mayor Nebbi Municipality Ngiriker Geoffrey says, for many years, municipal authorities were in running battles with taxi operators over street loading of passengers but if the taxi and bus terminals are fully complete, the local revenue wouldn’t be a problem in the near future since all vehicles will be in a confined place.

Ngiriker added that, the construction of taxi and bus terminals is aimed at providing a temporary accommodation for traders who will be displaced by the construction of the modern market in the municipality which will soon begin.

“The bus and taxi terminals will not only provide local revenues to council but also provide employment to all categories of abled working persons,” Ngiriker said.

One of the developers Adubango MacDonald says, a 15 year time period given by the municipal to the developers to utilize the lockups being constructed is too short for someone to realize the money spent in raising the lockups.

Adubango adds that, they abandoned the municipals Bill of Quantity (BOQ) after they detected a lot of irregularities in the BOQ because a temporary structure of a single room of 4 by 4 metres with mud motta can’t cost Shs 5 million, but the municipal engineers costed a single room at Shs 5m.

“We were given the BOQ which were not economical to us, that’s why we abandoned the BOQ and are using our own,” Adubango said.

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Oil And Gas Sector Tickles Tycoons To Form Association

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HOIMA – As Uganda heads towards the oil and gas production phase, businessmen and women in Bunyoro sub-region have started a process of forming an association which will help them tap into the oil and gas opportunities.

Recently a group of tycoons appointed the interim executive committee and named their association as Albertine Oil and Gas Suppliers Association.

Some of the interim executive committee members are; Biingi Kawiso Julius who was appointed as Interim Chairperson, Owori Martin as Interim Executive Secretary and former Permanent Secretary (PS) Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, Dr Kabagambe Kalisa who is the Interim Patron of the association.

Others are; Biribonwa Joseph- Interim Member, and Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom Prime Minister, Rt. Hon Byakutaga- Andrew.

Speaking to theCooperator news, Kawiso said that they developed the idea of forming the association after realizing that they lacked a forum to bring business men and women together to advocate for their rights in regard to the oil and gas sector.

He says that the association was formed but they haven’t registered it adding that plans are under way to legalize their association.

“We haven’t decided on the membership fee and the number of the members the association should have but we encourage business people to subscribe to the association once they have registered businesses” Biingi explained, adding that all those issues will be discussed in their second upcoming meeting.

According to him, the association will act as a forum for investors within the Albertine sub- region who are actively operating reputable businesses to prepare and build capacities to meet the standards required to offer goods and services in the oil and gas industry.

He added that the association will also provide an apex body of eminent persons who will advocate and lobby on behalf of members for consideration of business opportunities in industry.

Biingi explained that through the association, they are able to get information and guidance on upcoming oil and gas opportunities among others.

He noted that the oil and gas sector will provide the region with better opportunities and this requires them to get prepared if they are to tap in the sector.

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He explained that the business of oil and gas continues to be challenging, complex and sometimes uncertain and this calls for business communities to have strong partnerships to rely on to benefit from the sector as local suppliers.

In a recent association virtual meeting Kyaligonza Mathew, the National Content Manager China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) oriented the association on available opportunities in the oil and gas sector.

Kyaligonza, highlighted several ongoing oil and gas projects such as construction of critical oil roads, airport, pipeline and refinery construction as some of the opportunities business community and residents of Bunyoro can benefit from either directly or indirectly.

He noted that security services, transport, health, accommodation and catering among others are some of the ring-fenced opportunities for the local suppliers.

However, he says that there is a need for business communities in Bunyoro, to prepare for the sector by registering on the National Supplier Data Base and keep updated with the oil and gas information.

He also challenged the business community to join strong partners with experiences in the sector; form associations which will help them share information and form joint ventures if they are to reap big from the lucrative oil sector.

Agaba Edgar, one of the association members and Managing Director of Spice FM based in Hoima town said that the formation of the association was long overdue adding that oil and gas as well as other sectors will provide several opportunities.

He advised that there should be a way of getting farmers organized in groups or cooperatives to be able to produce quality products to supply the sector.

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Schools Advised to Join Cooperative Health Insurance Schemes

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SOROTI – Bethesda, a private health facility has embarked on a community health insurance scheme to help those in need.

The scheme started way back in 2019 with a training, to bring other people on board. So far, it has registered more than four groups into their system including schools.

Tumusiime Isaac, the Administrator of Bethesda Health Facility says the scheme aims at bringing services closer for those who earn less and can not access services from a private facility.

“We try to encourage the groups because we don’t want them to send only sick people,” Tumusiime said.

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While talking to theCooperator, Tumusiime said, for a group to benefit, they must be able to raise Shs 10,000. They also expect 60% of the members to have paid up for them to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with any cooperative society for services to commence.

The health insurance scheme runs for three months, before it is renewed. Tumusiime says the scheme aims at treating diseases like; malaria, typhoid and other simple headaches which may occur when there is no money.

He advises that if the community can embrace this initiative, cost sharing will be realized even when one does not fall sick. It could also help other people like during burials.

Ajuo Merab, the school bursar of St Stephen Secondary School, Soroti told theCooperator that they have been receiving treatment from Bethesda for the last three years.

“Their services have been so good, our students don’t have to suffer going elsewhere, each child pays 10,000/= for the whole term,” Ajuo said.

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Paicho Cooperative Store Construction Delayed

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GULU – Construction of Paicho Central Kal Growers’ Cooperative Society Limited (PCKGCS) store has delayed due to inadequate funds.

Construction of the store by Stanhope General Merchandise, should have started in October 2020, with funds from the Agriculture Cluster Development Project (ACDP).

The government gave Shs 140 million for constructing the store and the cooperative was to pay Shs 69 million, so that the store worth Shs 209 million shillings is built.

ACDP started in January 2012 as a partnership project between Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries (MAAIF) and the World Bank with finances from International Development Bank (IDA).

The project is being implemented in 57 districts across Uganda to raise on-farm productivity and marketable volumes of selected agricultural commodities such as; beans, rice, cassava, coffee and maize.

Under the project, a benefitting cooperative is supposed to pay 33% of cost of building a store.

However, Opiro Simon, the Chairperson of PCKGCS, said members of the cooperative planned for a big store that would cost Shs 240 million, which affected the start of construction. He said their request to the ministry to add more funds for them was turned down.

Opiro said, the cooperative members made their contribution by clearing the construction site, mining sand, buying bricks and gravel, which are at the construction site, but lack the cash needed to execute the store plan.

“The store was estimated to cost Shs 240 million, but our budget is only 210 million, we had already signed a contract and we thought the ministry would add for us some money, but they said they work on tight budgets,” Opiro said.

Following this hitch, the cooperative was advised to take the matter to Gulu District Commercial Officer (DCO) for advice.

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“When we wrote to the DCO for help, we were advised to reduce the size of the store, commensurate with the money we have,” Opiro said, adding that, “I was told that the reviewed plan will soon be printed out, before the contractor can start work.”

Ocen Alfred, the Gulu DCO said the cooperative lacks the full 33% needed for the store to be constructed according to the plan and is relying on the money given by the government.

“The 33% is a requirement that they must have. And since they don’t have it and the project has reached this level, there is no need for the money to go back, but it is already a problem.”

He said the cooperative is working with the district engineer to make the necessary adjustments so that a store, which is worth the amount of money they have, is built,” Ocen said.

PCKGCS was formed in 1964. It has 187 members all dealing in oil seed production and other grains.

The cooperative is struggling with a lack of infrastructure, which has forced the members to hold meetings under a tree.

The only structural building is a dilapidated store that was built decades back and was ravaged during the Lord’s Resistance Army [LRA] war.

Currently, the cooperative hires a store for keeping their produce.

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Nwoya Suspects To Be Invaded By Tsetse Flies

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OWC to Cluster Beneficiaries For Value Addition

Nebbi Municipality Generates Local Revenue In Lockups Giveaway

Oil And Gas Sector Tickles Tycoons To Form Association

Schools Advised to Join Cooperative Health Insurance Schemes

Paicho Cooperative Store Construction Delayed

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