The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), Land O'Lakes International Development, and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research announced the six winners of the Feed the Future Fall Armyworm Tech Prize at the AfricaCom conference in South Africa today. A Ugandan organization is one of the six winners.
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As project sponsors, borrowers, lenders and investors gathered at the Africa Investment Forum to make deals on investment opportunities, leaders of the continent’s top agribusiness companies shared their thoughts on the future of the industry. With its vast agricultural potential, Africa’s agribusiness sector is predicted to reach US$1 trillion by
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Africa as a continent has reported a significant rate in agriculture; Agriculture is one of the sectors on the continents with a reasonably high level of revenue from export activities. Export commodities such as Cocoa, coffee, Timber, cashew and maize are some widely known produce that earn the continent much
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Poultry business is increasingly becoming a lucrative business in Uganda and the world at large. The increasing demand for chicken (call it chicken meat) and eggs resulting from the growing population and townships across the country provides an opportunity for new and existing farmers to cash in on this enterprise.
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The Government of the People’s Republic of China through its Ministry of Agriculture & Rural Affairs under the leadership of H.E. Han Changfu, has committed to pump more money in Uganda`s agricultural sector. This was revealed to Hon. Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF)-Uganda
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MPs sitting on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Officials Tuesday grilled officials from the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries over Shs25.5bn debt in outstanding subscription fees to international organisations. This follows queries raised in June 2017 audit report by the Auditor General, John Muwanga. According to the
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The Shs50bn Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial Development (PIBID) hangs in balance after a section of MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) called for its disbandment, saying that it is operating illegally. PAC in its report on the audit findings dated June 2015 highlighted that the PIBID project has
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Avocado on toast, in a salad or a smoothie? There are many ways to eat the green fruit which is popular with hipsters across the world - a craze that Kenya is cashing in on. At Le Grenier à Pain restaurant in the leafy suburb of Riverside in Nairobi, upwardly
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Uganda joined the rest of the World to celebrate the World Food Day on the October 16, 2018. However, farmers in Uganda under our umbrella Eastern and Southern Africa Small Scale Farmers Forum (ESAFF Uganda) are demanding government to subsidize agricultural mechanization machines to make them affordable to small scale
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The Uganda National Bureau of Standards is collaborating with the British Standards Institution (BSI) under the Commonwealth Standards Network (CSN) Programme, which will support UNBS to achieve its strategic objectives and support agricultural and other value chains in complying with international best practices. The Programme will support finalisation of the
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