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Sembabule’s Taala Ya Mawogola plots comeback, 4 years after collapse

SEMBABULE: Plans are underway to revive Taala Ya Mawogola Savings and Credit Cooperative Society Ltd, four years after the SACCO collapsed, theCooperator has learned. Simon Peter Ddungu, the Sembabule District […]

FRONASA Cooperative Members Appeal to Museveni for support

OMORO: Relatives and children of fallen Front for National Salvation (FRONASA) members are crying out to President Museveni for support to boost their Cooperative, which is struggling with insufficient capital. […]

Government to step-up extension support for farmers

Government has committed to step up the reach and diversity of extension services available to smallholder farmers and cooperatives, in a bid to promote agricultural mechanization and increase the productivity […]

Sembabule farmers tipped on Cooperatives

Sembabule: Coffee and dairy farmers’ groups in Sembabule district have been urged to embrace cooperatives as a way of generating sustainable wealth. Addressing at least 80 leaders from different farmers’ […]

Uganda lacks a coherent agro-industrialization policy – EPRC’s Guloba

Piecemeal interventions and poor coordination among institutional actors in the Agriculture sector have been blamed for the lack of a robust agro-industrialization policy to achieve Uganda’s development targets. Speaking at […]

Government Launches Call Center to Report Fake Agro-input Dealers

The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries have launched a toll-free call centre for farmers to report suppliers selling or distributing fake agricultural inputs on the market. Agriculture Minister […]

Makerere Staff Leaders Removed from University Webmail

Makerere, Kampala: The leaders of Makerere University Academic Staff Association (MUASA) and Makerere Administrative Staff Association (MASA) have challenged the Vice-Chancellor (VC) to explain the circumstances under which they were […]

Trade Minister on the Spot Over Sugarcane Farmers Arrested in Kenya

Kampala, Uganda. Parliament on Tuesday tasked government to explain the continuous arrest and mistreatment of Ugandan farmers trying to sell their sugar cane in Kenya. The House also questioned if […]

NARO Moots Anti-Tick Vaccine

Kampala, Uganda: The National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) is in advanced stages of producing an anti-tick vaccine, theCooperator has learned. Speaking at a policy dialogue organized by NARO and The […]

West Nile Growers Cooperative Union stuck with Shs.6b worth of tobacco

Arua, Uganda: West Nile Growers Cooperative Union in Arua is struggling to sell off over 6,000 metric tons of tobacco harvested this season, thecooperator has established. The Dilemma follows the […]