Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There was a decline in staple food production across the country in the 2018/2019 agriculture year, according to a survey by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics. The head of the Department of Production and Environment Statistics, Patrick Okello disclosed this while releasing the 2019 annual …
Read More »Farmers reject banana plantlets from NAADS citing lengthy harvesting period
Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Farmers in Bududa district have rejected banana plantlets delivered by the National Agricultural Advisory Services-NAADS under the Operation Wealth Creation-OWC program. Recently, the NAADS secretariat delivered over 4000 banana plantlets to the district for distribution to the farmers to boost banana productivity and increase …
Read More »Farmers in Bunyangabu stuck with bananas as prices drop
Bunyangabu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Farmers in Bunyangabu district are stuck with bananas following a reduction in the prices. The price reduction is attributed to increased production and the covid-19 lockdown which affected the movement of traders to purchase bananas from the farmers. A bunch of bananas which was …
Read More »‘Green fuel’: Bananas to help wean Angola off oil
Caxito, Angola | AFP | Boxes of still-green bananas were shifted one-by-one from a towering stack of crates into a refrigerated shipping container. Stamped “From Angola, with love”, the fruit is shipped to consumers 6,000 kilometres (3,700 miles) away and are part of Luanda’s drive to diversify its economy …
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