The government through the Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) is mooting plans to turn coffee growing and its production fashionable to attract the youths from Northern Uganda. The plans stem from reports that the youth who form about 22.7 percent of the country’s population and workforce as of the latest 2024
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Frank K. Tumwebaze, the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries , addressing the press at Uganda Media Centre Government has officially launched the registration of coffee farmers and other value chain actors as Uganda races to meet the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requirements that are aimed at ensuring
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Farmers under their umbrella Busoga sugarcane growers Union-BSU have asked the government to address challenges in the sugar industry. While meeting with the National Resistance Movement-NRM Deputy Secretary General, Rosemary Namayanjja on Thursday, the farmers said that sugarcane growing is the backbone of Busoga's economy, and called for the government's
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The Dairy Development Authority (DDA) has revealed an increase in prices of milk in the central and eastern regions of Uganda. According DDA, in August, the Central region experienced an increase of Shs 175 at the farm gate to Shs 1, 275. This is despite the fact that retail prices
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Uganda exported 837,915 60-kilo bags of coffee in August Uganda’s coffee exports in August 2024 amounted to 837,915 60-kilo bags, worth US$ 221.63 million (UShs820bn), Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) has revealed in its monthly report for August 2024. This is the highest number of bags to be exported in
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Coffee farmers from Busoga attending a sensitization workshop about EUDR Ssabalangira wa Busoga Kingdom, Moses Woira Mitala Kitimbo, who oversees the three Kingdom Counties of Bugabula, Budiope, and Buzaaya, has urged coffee farmers in Kamuli District to embrace the ongoing coffee registration exercise. Speaking during a regional stakeholders engagement
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NARO Director General, Dr. Yona Baguma and Tooro Prime Minister, Steven Kiyingi Frankston shaking hands after signing the MoU in Fort Portal on Wednesday Ahead of the Empango (coronation anniversary celebrations) tomorrow, Tooro Kingdom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) to implement joint
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The Uganda Meteorological Authority (UNMA) says that several parts of the country are expected to receive near average to above average rainfall. Uganda generally experiences two major rainfall seasons: March-April-May(MAM) and September-October-November (SOND) as the first and second rainy season respectively. However, the northern region and parts of the eastern
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President Yoweri Museveni and MPs from three Committees of Parliament working on the rationalization of state agencies, have agreed to retain the Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) as an autonomous entity for the next three years. Government wants to transfer UCDA to the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) as it aims to
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Some of the beneficiaries of the CoCoDev Matching Grant Scheme in a group photo The National Coffee Roadmap which aims to produce 20 million bags by 2030 has received a big boost from a Shs10.8bn Coffee and Cocoa Value Chain Development Project (CoCoDev) Matching Grant Scheme that will support 134 commercial
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