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COMMENT: By Donnas Ojok Agricultural Coops and Fair Trade: Tackling the agricultural investment dilemma It is generally believed that agricultural cooperatives offer a natural entrepreneurial solution to the problems of poverty faced by millions in the developing world. The argument goes that these coops allow even the least literate smallholders …

The proportion of Ugandans engaged in agricultural activities has registered a slight increase according to the latest National Services Delivery Survey. A report, which was compiled by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) shows that the proportion of Ugandans who depend on agriculture increased from 75% in 2008 to 76% …

A United States supported program to help spark explosive growth in the agriculture sector by bringing together some of Uganda’s most-trusted, powerful, and well-known sector leaders has been launched in Kampala. The Leveraging Excellence in Agricultural Development program, part of President Obama’s Feed the Future initiative, will bring together 17 …

President Yoweri Museveni has challenged his new cabinet to look for investments, end corruption and move to total commercialization of agriculture in order to move the country to middle-income status. He will outline his complete plan for this to be achieved when his new cabinet meets for the first time …

It has almost become a norm that for every State of the Nation address, President Yoweri Museveni has to lament about the fact that Uganda imports far much more than it exports. This year’s address was no different. He lamented how Uganda had become a ‘supermarket’ economy, importing all sorts …

NBS: Farmers have criticized the budget read this afternoon by Finance Minister designate Matia Kashija. Whereas allocation to the sector has more than doubled, a group of farmers watching the parliamentary proceedings live on television at Hotel Africana in Kampala are bitter.   Share on: WhatsApp

Successful `Zero Food Loss’ programme run by WFP nears target of 240,000 smallholder farmers What do you do if you run a school in a poor rural area and have to feed 800 pupils? That is the challenge the parents and teachers of Lumuli Primary School in Butagaya sub-County, Jinja …

The evolution of policy in Uganda is something that continues to tickle many heads. In 2010, Economic Policy Research centre (EPRC) set out to develop a National Fertilizer Policy for Uganda. This was on the backdrop that Ugandans soils were no longer fertile, thus calling for an urgent need of …

Currently, Africa has about six agribusiness incubators, two of which are in Uganda At just 27, Sam Turyatunga is the proprietor of Tursam Investments Ltd, the producers of Uhuru branded juices. In 2015, he was producing 15,000 litres of juice and had a turnover of $5,000 (Shs 17 million) per …

Achieving middle-income status in 5 years: Museveni’s latest politicking joke or a realistic national target? ANALYSIS: When President Yoweri Museveni took the oath of president for the sixth time on May 12 at Kololo Ceremonial Grounds in Kampala, he had one goal clearly on his mind: delivering Uganda to the …