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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Uganda’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
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On 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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Agribusiness is increasingly becoming lucrative in Uganda. And a number of unemployed Ugandans are embracing agribusiness for income generation, while the employed ones are into farming to supplement their earnings. It is important to note that 69.4% of Uganda’s population is still practicing subsistence farming, according to the 2014 National Population
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Owners of idle land in Kenya face penalties after the government finalised taxation guidelines in part of efforts to boost agricultural production and enhance food security. Land Secretary Farida Karoney Thursday told the Senate Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources in Mombasa that the Idle Land Taxation Policy must,
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In line with the Education pillar of its Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, Airtel Uganda has handed over 100 goats to 50 girls in Moroto district in a bid to join in the fundraising campaign #GOATSFORGIRLS that aims at keeping young girls in the Karamoja region in school. This handover follows
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By Dr Gilbert Saggia Everywhere we look, technology is being touted as the enabler of a new era of African agricultural prosperity. The exciting world of possibilities offered by blockchain, IoT, machine learning and the like has made companies, governments and policy-makers sit up and take notice of how such
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