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
Read MorePresident 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
Read MoreFarmers Stuck With Rice As ‘Favoured’ Importers Enjoy Tax Holidays
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
Read MoreInside The Genetically Modified Cassava Research In Uganda
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
Read MorePresident 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
Read MoreIn 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
Read MorePresident 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
Read MoreUganda’s richest man Sudhir Ruparelia has toured several areas in Masaka district with an aim of acquiring land to expand on his investments in the growth and exportation of flowers and vegetables. [caption id="attachment_11152" align="aligncenter" width="533"] Sudhir and his team touring land in Masaka[/caption] Sudhir, who was accompanied his son
Read MoreOn March31, 2018 I and other coffee farmers travelled to Buzami Village, Bunjakko Island in Buwama Sub-county, Mpigi District to learn about a new method of increasing coffee production and output. As you approach the one–acre coffee demonstration farm set up by Joseph Nkandu, a prominent farmer and Executive Director
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