The African Development Bank Group’s Board of Directors has approved 24, fast-track programs to help Africa mitigate rising food prices and inflation caused by Russia’s war in Ukraine, climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic. The first round of approvals is part of the Bank’s $1.5 billion African Emergency Food
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The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group on Friday approved $73.5 million (UShs279.3bn) to finance a program that will boost Tanzania’s food production by a million tonnes in three years. The Tanzania Agricultural Inputs Support Project, spanning September 2022-June 2025, was designed under the Bank Group’s
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Officers supervise youth slashing down rice in Otuke There is rage across Lango sub-region a week after the Environmental Protection Police Unit (EPPU) slashed down rice in Wetlands in Otuke District. The operations conducted in the areas of Orum sub-county and Otuke Town council throughout last week come
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The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a grant of $8.1 million (Shs30.5bn) to South Sudan to fund its Emergency Food Production Programme. Allocated through the Transition Support Facility, the grant constitutes additional financing to the ongoing Agricultural Markets, Value Addition and Trade Development Project (AMVAT).
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Maj. Gen. David Kasura-Kyomukama, the Permanent Secretary, MAAIF Government through the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) has directed district Chief Administrative Officers (CAOs) to compile and submit to MAAIF a list of large scale farmers in all districts that make up Uganda. In a letter dated July 6, 2022 to
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Kenya is seeking to limit Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda from exporting maize to other countries at its expense. Kenya is seeking to limit Zambia, Tanzania and Uganda from exporting maize to other countries at its expense in fresh efforts to curb the surge in maize flour prices, ease inflation
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Buganda Kingdom through Mwanyi Terimba Ltd (MTL), a company owned by the kingdom, has started buying coffee from farmers. In a letter dated July05 to County Chiefs and their deputies, Joseph Kawuki, the Minister for Local Government in Buganda Kingdom, informs them that the company started buying coffee in June
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Former Rubaga North MP Moses Kasibante in his coffee farm Commercial farming isn’t for the faint hearted. It requires passion, determination and focus. Moses Kasibante, the former Rubaga North MP, is one of those that have immersed in the business venture that most of the so-called elite population see as
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L-R: State Minister for Agriculture, Fred Bwino, Robert Mwesigye-Technical Extension Manager at UCDA and UCDA MD, Dr. Emmanuel Iyamulemye inspecting the wet processing equipment The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries through Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) has given Coffee Wet Processing Equipment (wet mills) to Arabica-coffee farmers across
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Nasser Mutesasira (Right), the brain behind Sipi Hills Coffee, tasting coffee inside his lab Organic farming, an environmentally friendly system of farming which uses pesticides and fertilizers of organic origin such as compost manure, is slowly picking up globally and, in the process, helping farmers to earn premium prices. Certified
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