Agriculture Minister, Frank Tumwebaze The Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries Wednesday tabled strategies aimed at achieving Agro Industrialization in four years. While appearing before Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, MAAIF Minister Frank Tumwebaze said Agricultural Value Chain Development Strategy (AVCDS) 2021-2026 is one of the policy
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Experts have attributed the current rain to the strengthening of Southern Pressure Systems (rain bearing systems) whose orientation shifted the rainfall belt over the country and consequently led to the observed rainfall events over most parts of the country. According to David Elweru, the Ag. Executive Director, Uganda National Meteorological
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Hass Avocado is lucrative Agriculture Minister Frank Tumwebaze has proposed the introduction of Hass Avocado in Busoga to replace sugarcane growing. Hass Avocado is a commercially popular and nutritious fruit and one of the 19 crops that the Ministry of Agriculture is promoting under the Agricultural value chain development strategy.
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Emmanuel Wawire roasting coffee Emmanuel Wawire is a coffee Roaster and Barista at Kuwait based Earth Roastery. The Middle East company is buying Uganda Coffee ( Bros coffee) which won the recent Uganda-UK Arabica coffee cupping competition. Uganda coffee is Earth Roastery’s fastest selling coffee. Wawire was trained by Uganda
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Factories taking shape at one of the new Industrial Parks Agro-industrialization is set to take the fifth largest share of the national budget for 2022/23 as the government implements the Agro-Industrialization Programme Implementation Action Plan. This is also part of the third National Development Plan (NDPIII), whose theme ‘is increasing
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Uganda Coffee exports in December 2021 amounted to 536,889 60-kilo bags worth US$ 75.25 million (Shs265bn), the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) December 2021 report reveals. This comprised 452,55 bags of Robusta valued at US $55.26 million and 84,301 bags of Arabica valued at US$ 19.99 million. This was an
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A coffee farmer in Nwoya district Only 24 farmers have embraced coffee growing in Kitgum since the cash crop was introduced in the district in 2015. Beatrice Alela, the Regional Coffee Extension Officer for Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA), attributes the limited interest by farmers in growing the crop to their
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Wandera says a farmer can earn a gross profit of Shs6.6m from 10 bee hives in a year You can still make money from bee keeping without having to adulterate honey. For some reason, some honey dealers sell something next to water for honey. To some, however, it is not
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Martin Shabaya (L) poses for a photo with Simon Ochen of Chariots Coffees Martin Shabaya is the first African to make it to the World Barista Championship finals. Shabaya, a Kenyan, represented Africa at the 2021 World Barista Championship in Milan, Italy, where he emerged as the world’s 5th best barista.
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Delegations from Uganda and Kenya in a group photo after Ministers signed a joint Communique Uganda and Kenya on 21st December 2021 held a cordial bilateral meeting in Nairobi to discuss and resolve issues that impede smooth bilateral trade flows. The meeting was held at Cabinet Secretary/Minister level and hosted at
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