Oil palm workers managing the nursery beds at Buvuma. Over 60 oil palm out-growers in Buvuma district have decried the delayed loans from the National Oil Palm Project-NOPP to maintain their plantations. The farmers are among the first group of out-growers who received seedlings to establish oil palm gardens in
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Uganda remains one of the countries with high maternal, infant mortality rates and nutrition challenges in the world according to the World Health organization. As of 2021, the infant mortality rate for Uganda stood at 42 deaths per 1000 live births above the Sub-Saharan Africa average of 27 per 1000
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The leadership of the Police’s Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization (SACCO) is looking for over 100 retirees with unpaid loans worth 1.2 billion Shillings. The Chairman of the Police's Exodus SACCO Wilson Omoding says a majority of the non-performing loans were taken by police officers who are now retired. Most
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At least 80,000 households in East Acholi are expected to plant cotton this season, following the attractive price set last season. In September 2021, the Cotton Development Organization (CDO) announced the indicative price of a kilogram of cotton at 2,000 Shillings to help regulate its farm gate price and eliminate
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