Bringo Fresh, a platform that lets individuals order fresh produce online and have it delivered to their doorsteps has been launched in Uganda. This comes at a time when Ugandan farmers are faced with a number of produce marketing challenges. Consumers on the other hand, brave a number of inconveniences
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By Richard Wangwe There is a common misconception that Commercial Banks in Uganda have limited interest in financing farming or Agricultural projects. After all the sector isn’t efficiently organized, is largely uninsured and dominated by small holders with low income and therefore one would assume are unattractive to banks. While
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Poultry farming is one of the most lucrative businesses 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
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Traders trucked in 3.28 million bags of cheaper maize from Uganda in five months through May, fresh official statistics indicate, helping price out maize farmers from Kenya’s food basket regions, reports the Daily Nation. Data released by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) shows 295,200 metric tonnes of staple maize was
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President Yoweri Museveni has underscored the need to commercialize agriculture in order to bring more Ugandans into the money economy. Delivering the 2018 State of the Nation Address for 2018 at the Uganda International Conference Centre, Serena, Kampala on Wednesday, Museveni said the 68% homesteads that are still in subsistence are a
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Rice farmers in Uganda under their umbrella body Rice Association of Uganda (RAU) have decried government’s failure to protect them as it (government) ‘selectively’ gives tax incentives to importers. The farmers mainly from Butaleja district petitioned Speaker Rebecca Kadaga on Monday and painfully told her how government has reportedly favoured
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On May24, 2018, a few journalists and I visited National Crop Resources Research Institute in Namulonge, located approximately 30 kilometres northeast of Kampala City. The trip was to assess progress in research that entails developing Genetically Modified (GM) cassava that is resistant to Cassava Brown Streak Disease and Casssava Mosaic
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President Yoweri Museveni’s promise to provide hand hoes to farmers across the country during campaigns in the run up to the 2016 presidential elections is set to see light of the day after Parliament proposed that they be procured in the 2018/19 Financial Year. According to the Report of the
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In 2017, Kenya, the only middle-income economy in the East African region, embarrassingly struggled to feed herself. As food security deteriorated to a 10-year low, the country turned to her poor neighbours including Uganda and Tanzania to plug the deficit, reports the Standard. But the search for missing food did
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President Yoweri Museveni has commissioned Baralegi Presidential Demonstration Farm, in Baralegi, Okwang Sub-County in Otuke District in Lango Sub-Region. The farm is the third of its kind in the country, after Kawumu Farm in Luweero District and Kityerera in Busoga Sub-Region. President Museveni said that it is unacceptable for the
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