There are a few enterprises that can give you a profit of Shs300,000 after Shs1m investment. However, this is has been made possible at PROF BIORESEARCH, a company founded by Julius Nyanzi, a Ugandan Bio-Entrepreneur, scientist, researcher and innovator. The company only deals in organically grown crops/ foods or organically
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The Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja has said government will soon consider Soybean as a country`s strategic crop that will earn farmers good money. He made the remarks while launching a new soybean variety (Maksoy 6N) and state-of-the-art soybean storage facilities yesterday in Kabanyolo-Wakiso District.
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Premier Recruitment Ltd, a labour recruitment company has sent its first batch of 8 Ugandan ladies to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where they will work as domestic workers on a two- year contract, Kyamutetera reports. The labour exporting agency entered Uganda’s private labour recruitment market barely 6 months ago.t The 8
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The Anzisha Prize program which is a partnership between African Leadership Academy and Mastercard Foundation has just launched the call for 2019 applications. The prize is looking for Africa's most innovative social and business entrepreneurs between the ages of 15 and 22. Young entrepreneurs who apply will have the opportunity
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On the 1st of January 2019, at 12am, WAT, the Tony Elumelu Foundation will begin accepting applications for the fifth cycle of its Entrepreneurship Programme. 1,000 selected applicants will join the current 4,470 beneficiaries of the Programme. Since 2015, the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme – the only African-funded entrepreneurial catalyst of
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Middle East Consultants Ltd (MECL), Uganda’s leading labour recruitment and exporting agency has revealed that it will soon start exporting Ugandans to China for lucrative jobs. This was revealed by MECL Managing Director, Gordon Mugyenyi in an exclusive interview with Business Focus at the sidelines of the National Symposium and
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Abdul Katumba, 36, was a boda boda rider in Kampala. He could only manage to feed his family from his tiresome job, leaving him with a number of financial issues. He couldn’t continue with this situation lest he would die a poor man! When opportunity knocked, he couldn’t resist grabbing
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Opportunities for investment in Africa outweigh the obstacles, according to a report by leading African companies covered in the African Development Bank’s new Africa-to-Africa (A2A) Investment Report, the first ever report on inter-African trade published by the Bank. The report unearths the realities African companies face when investing in the
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The decision by Erick Kigula, a resident of Kitemu village in Wakiso district and a Primary School Teacher by profession to go for greener pastures in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates is beginning to pay off. The future looked murky for him and his young family, a thing that prompted
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The African Innovation Foundation (AIF) Thursday announced its top 10 nominees for its prestigious US$185 000 (Shs702m) Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2018 awards. This year’s Call for Applications with its theme “African innovation: Investing in Inclusive Innovation Ecosystems” attracted more than 3 000 applications from 52 African countries. Building
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