Coffee ready for export A total of 572,839 60-kilo bags of coffee valued at US$ 53.52 million were exported in March 2021 at an average weighted price of US$ 1.56 /kilo, 6 cents higher than US$ 1.50 /kilo in February 2021, Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) monthly report for March
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Frederick Ngobi Gume, the Minister of State for Cooperatives has advised the Board of Bugisu Cooperative Union-BCU to take legal action against John Wamulugwa, the former BCU Board chairperson over his continuous malicious petitions against the union leadership. Speaking during the BCU Annual General Meeting at the coffee mill in
Read MoreLight Over Light Capital (LOLC) Finance Uganda, which offers finance and technological solutions to agriculture in rural areas is now spreading its wings across Africa. Based in Kisoro district - Uganda, the company now has more than 600 customers and 4000 users across Rwanda, DRC, Kenya and Nigeria. “We saw
Read MoreINTERVIEW: Nangoli Shares His Journey To Exporting Ugandan Processed Specialty Coffee To UK
Nangoli besides his finished products. Kikobero coffee is now exported to UK Martin Nangoli, 47, was born in a poorly managed coffee garden and isolated family in Kikobero village, Masira Sub-county in present day Bulambuli district. He says his family and village were a laughing stock because his parents were hunters whose future looked
Read MoreOree is supplementing his salary with income from poultry farming Poultry farming is one of the lucrative enterprises one can venture into in Uganda. One can choose to go for broilers, exotic layers or local chicken. Bosco Oree chose to venture into commercial local chicken. In 2012, a logistician and currently an
Read MoreCatching fish using pancakes is a bad practice The Fisheries Protection Unit (FPU) has warned fishermen on Lake George against using pancakes to catch fish.This follows reports of fishermen who have adopted pancakes as a new method to make their catch. The fishermen reportedly throw the pans into areas where they
Read MoreCoffee is Uganda's leading cash crop and a top foreign exchange earner/courtesy photo In a letter dated March 25th 2020, the Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development announced Shs490bn budget cuts from agencies and ministries which will be channeled to local governments to implement the agriculture Parish Model. The model aims
Read MoreKenyan Supermarkets Selling Contaminated Pork & Chicken, Study Warns
New research has warned of contaminated pork and chicken on sale A significant portion of chicken and pork meat sold in local supermarkets is contaminated with bacteria, some of which could be harmful to humans, a new report by a UK-based World Animal Protection has revealed. In the findings, released
Read MoreAs farmers begin to plant in most parts of the country, many gardens in Bududa district are still idle as the owners desperately wait for Operation Wealth Creation seeds. Farmers say a few of them who have managed to plant suffered the high prices of the seeds which have shot
Read MoreKenya’s decision to re-open its market for Uganda’s produce mainly grain has eventually led to the increase in the price of other agricultural products in the country. In March, Kenya’s Ministry of agriculture suspended the importation of Uganda’s maize and other agricultural produce citing safety concerns. The ministry claimed that Ugandan’s
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