Rev.Prof. Florence Isabirye Muranga-the lead TOOKE scientist and innovator, showing the international buyers who are in Uganda for five days, the various Tooke products The Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID) and its sister agency, Banana Industrial Research and Development Centre (BIRDC) has launched CREATE AND COOK WITH TOOKE
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The World Bank Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Mr. Daniel Dulitzky during a tour of the NARO anti-tick vaccine production facility at Nakyesasa in Wakiso district last week. The World Bank Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Mr. Daniel Dulitzky, has commended the National Agricultural Research Organisation
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Extension officers inspect cocoa pods for pests during a field study organized by CoCoDev in Mayuge The Coffee and Cocoa Value Chain Development Project (CoCoDev) has rolled out a new cocoa extension toolkit among public and private extension agents countrywide to boost production, productivity, and value addition of Uganda’s 2nd
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Foodstuffs in a Kampala Market/Courtesy photo Researchers have identified significant food loss and wastage in Kampala’s fresh food markets, which they say could be reduced through the enforcement of simple quality controls by city authorities. A survey conducted by the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) at Makerere University, in collaboration
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The abandoned irrigation site A multi-billion-shilling irrigation project established to boost vegetable farming in Omoro District has been left idle after most beneficiaries abandoned it just five years after its launch. The Opwoch Small-Scale Irrigation System, located on more than 20 acres of land in Jaka Parish, Lalogi Sub-county, was
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Karim Nyeko, one of the beekeepers in Te-Okot village in Got Apwoyo Subcounty in Nwoya district checks on some of his beehives at the Murchison Falls National Park boundary. On a sunny Friday afternoon, I joined a small group of residents of The-Okot village, Got Apwoyo, Sub-county in Nwoya District
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Team Uganda at the Shanghai expo. A deal was also signed by the government with Cotti Coffee, which operates more than 7,500 coffee shops in 28 countries. Uganda’s coffee exporters have closed deals worth up to $3million at the China International Import Expo (CIIE) held in Shanghai. The coffee exporters
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Rice farmers in Maracha harvesting their yield on 6 November 2025 after the season long training under the PRiDe project For decades, the West Nile region was synonymous with tobacco cultivation, alongside traditional staples such as cassava and millet. Many homesteads had the iconic burnt-brick tobacco-drying barns that usually stood
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Kenyan Senators visiting the NARO fish feed production plant at the Aquaculture Center at Kajjansi, in Kampala on Thursday The Chairperson of Kenya’s Senate Standing Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Senator David Wakoli Wafula, has called for stronger regional collaboration in the management of shared water resources between Kenya
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Uganda continues to earn big from coffee exports Uganda’s coffee exports in September 2025, totaled to 844,949 bags worth US$218.6million UGX766.7billion). According to Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) Monthly Coffee Report for September 2025, this comprised of 771,704 bags of Robusta valued at US$190million (UGX666.5billion) and 73,245
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