Fred Bwino Kyakulaga, the State Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries presents a dummy cheque of UGX 1.2b with Equity Bank’s Director of Public Sector and Social Investment Catherine Psogmgen On Friday, 10th October 2025, several District Leaders, Councilors and various farmers gathered at Mayuge District Headquarters to witness
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The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), through the Department of Crop Protection (DCP), has intensified its response to banana rust thrips in South Western Uganda by deploying technical teams to work with Local Government and conduct targeted farmer trainings. Districts including Rwampara, Mbarara, Ibanda, Kamwenge, Mityana, Mpigi,
Read MoreCNOOC’s Livelihood Restoration Program Yields First Rice Harvest, Marks New Milestone in Community Support
The harvest ceremony was attended by a wide range of stakeholders including farmers, government representatives, and company officials CNOOC Uganda Limited has successfully had its first harvest of the high-yielding WDR-73 rice variety under its Innovative Livelihood Restoration Program for Crop Production. The harvest, which commenced on October 7th 2025
Read MoreAfrica’s Agrifood Systems Will Be Transformed By The Leadership, Resilience And Visionary Young People
By Alli Faiza Across Africa, young women and men are tilling soil with one hand and carrying other responsibilities on the other hand. In local markets, some are turning baskets of produce into budding agribusinesses that feed families and spark local economies. These young farmers rooted in their fields and
Read MoreNetherlands Ambassador: What’s Stopping Uganda From Becoming World’s Largest Exporter of Agricultural Products?
Officials from dfcu, Vision Group, the Netherlands Embassy and other partners flagging off the best farmers to the Netherlands dfcu Bank, in partnership with Vision Group, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, and Koudijs BV, on Thursday officially flagged off the winners of the 2024
Read MoreMatsiko’s Well Managed 50-Acre Coffee Farm Earns Him ‘National Best Coffee Farmer Award’
Bwino Kyakulaga (Right), Minister for State for Agriculture hands over the Best Coffee Award to Topher Matsiko a farmer from Gomba at the International Coffee Day Celebrations held in Jinja Topher Matsiko, a coffee farmer from Gomba district and a beneficiary of a Matching Grant Scheme under the Coffee
Read MoreGrowing Beyond Borders: dfcu Bank Sends Best Ugandan Farmers to Learn Modern Skills from the Netherlands
The best farmers in a group photo at the flag-off event dfcu Bank, in partnership with Vision Group, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, and Koudijs BV, has officially flagged off the winners of the 2024 Best Farmers Competition for a transformative, week-long study
Read MoreCoffee farmers in Nwoya district display harvested coffee berries during an agricultural exhibition held in Gulu city in October 2024. Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) has disclosed an ambitious plan to expand coffee growing on one million acres of farmland across Northern Uganda as part of efforts to transform livelihoods and
Read MoreCoffee lovers tasting Uganda’s coffee at the SCAJ World Specialty Coffee Conference & Exhibition in Japan Uganda has made a powerful statement at Asia’s biggest coffee gathering, the SCAJ World Specialty Coffee Conference & Exhibition in Japan, positioning itself as one of the world’s fastest-rising coffee exporters and a reliable
Read MoreUganda Exports Over 850,000 Bags Of Coffee In August, Earns UGX722.58bn
Coffee remains Uganda’s reliable top foreign exchange earner Uganda’s coffee exports in August 2025 amounted to 855, 441 bags worth US 202.75 million (UGX722.58 billion), Ministry of Agriculture has revealed in its Monthly Coffee Report for August 2025. This comprised of 797, 363 bags of Robusta valued at US180.79 million
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