The Kenyan Cabinet has approved the growing of Genetically Modified cotton in the country even as confusion reigns over the 2012 ban on such crops. The move will see Kenyan farmers get access to biotech (BT) cotton that has been touted as superior to the conventional one, with experts saying
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The government of Iran has revealed plans to start manufacturing tractors in Uganda. The Iranian Ambassador to Uganda, H.E Seyed Morteza Mortazavi, told the Speaker of Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga, that a team of Iranian manufacturers had visited different stakeholders in Uganda earlier this year, and was moved by the potential
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Farmers in Kanjuiri, Nyandarua (Kenya), are pouring out milk because of poor prices and lack of market as roads remain impassable due to heavy rains, Daily Nation reports. A number of farmers who spoke to the Nation said they were considering abandoning dairy farming because milk was no longer profitable.
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The Government of Uganda is in final stages of legalizing marijuana growing for mainly medical purposes. It is understood that Cabinet has set up a subcommittee to inquiry into a proposal of legalizing cannabis growing in the East African country. According to State Minister of Health for General Duties, Sarah
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A delegation from Kenya government is set to visit Uganda next week on a verification mission to determine if milk imports coming into Kenya are Ugandan or from third parties. The move follows a surge in volumes of imported milk purportedly from Uganda amid rising complaints that the neighbouring country
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Today, the 5th of December 2019, Uganda joined the Global community to commemorate the World Soil Day. In a statement issued by Christopher Kibazanga, Minister of State for Agriculture in commemoration of the day said that Government appreciates the work of Soil Scientists at Makerere University and other Universities for
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The State Minister for Agriculture, Christopher Kibazanga Wednesday 4th December 2019 commissioned the Egypt- Uganda joint model farm project in Gomba district. Also present was the Egyptian ambassador to Uganda, H.E Ahmed Abdel Aziz Mostafa. The project is being managed by National Enterprises Corporation, the Enterprise arm for the UPDF
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Joseph Lwevuze, 65, is among the few elderly persons who have defied the begging and handout syndrome. He earns handsomely from his farming projects at Ntangala village, Katikamu sub-county in Luweero district. When Lwevuze (in featured photo above), a catechist attached to Kasana –Luweero Diocese, ventured into orange growing as
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Workers exposed to pesticides at a UK-funded firm in the Democratic Republic of Congo have complained of becoming impotent, a rights group has said. Feronia, which dominates DR Congo's palm-oil sector, had failed to give workers adequate protective equipment, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. The UK government's development bank, CDC,
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By Mariam Yinusa and Edward Mabaya Monica Musonda, CEO of Zambian food processing company Java Foods, certainly faced hurdles in her rise to the top, but she overcame them. “Although the barriers to entry for women can be frustrating, they are often basic and relatively easy to resolve,” she said,
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