Emmanuel Iyamulemye, UCDA Managing Director speaking at the engagement meeting Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) has started conducting engagement meetings with key stakeholders in preparation for the registration of coffee farmers across the country. This comes after President Yoweri Museveni duly assented to the National Coffee Act, 2021 on 31st
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Some of the farmers who participated in the recently concluded PostBank agricultural forum pose for a photo at Bomah Hotel in Gulu district. PostBank, a financial institution that is committed to empowering lives has today concluded a series of agricultural forums that sought to enhance farmers’ skills and capacity in
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British High Commissioner to Uganda Kate Airey tasting Uganda Coffee at the UCDA coffee lab in Lugogo. This was during the launch of the UG-UK Arabica coffee cupping competition. Looking on is UCDA MD Emmanuel Iyamulemye (R) The British High Commissioner to Uganda, Kate Airey, has described Uganda’s coffee as
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Some of the affected pineapples Pineapple farmers in the Ntungamo district have decried a disease that has hit their gardens. The disease called mealybug bacteria has been reported in Nyongozi parish in Nyamukana Town Council and affects the plant with small insects that put a web cover leaving it to
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Minister Frank Tumwebaze (R) with Caroline Adriaensen, the EU representative The Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), Frank Tumwebaze, has put before stakeholders a proposal to have a forum dubbed, ‘Farming For Export’ so as to address real challenges of the farmers. Speaking at a trialogue on boosting
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Cotton farmers in the Acholi sub-region are excited with the new price of cotton that has hit 2,000 Shillings per kilogram. Recently, the Cotton Development Organization-CDO announced an indicative price of shillings 2,000 for a kilogram of cotton. The indicative price helps to regulate the price at which buyers can purchase
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Frank K. Tumwebaze (pictured), the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries has lashed out at some Government officials for insecurity in farming communities and not caring about issues that affect ordinary Ugandans. The made the revelation via his official Twitter handle while responding to Dicksons C. Kateshumbwa, the Sheema Municipality MP, who called on
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Kenya imports lots of maize from Uganda and Tanzania Maize imports to Kenya declined 26 percent in the seven months to July as restrictions on produce coming in from Tanzania and Uganda in the first quarter of the year impacted volumes. Ministry of Agriculture says the volume declined to
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Hellen Adoa, the State Minister in Charge Fisheries The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries has linked the poor quality of fish to the outbreak of Covid-19 in 2020 and flooding. Hellen Adoa, the State Minister in Charge Fisheries made this revelation in a media address at the
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Apple farmers in Kasese District have been advised to improve on their agronomic practices to increase on the productivity and quality of their produce. They have also been reminded to make better use of information technology to have better crop, fertilizer and pesticide selection and step up their integration into
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