Kawongolo monitoring his layers One and half years ago, Isaaka Kawongolo, 27, was traveling to his poultry farm in Kayunga by boda-boda when they were knocked by a speeding car after it lost control. He was rushed to a nearby Health Centre IV that evening and later referred to a
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Read MoreThe panelists during the deep dive discussion chronicling UBL's 75-year journey of socioeconomic contributions to Uganda Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL) has has paid Shs7.4 trillion in taxes to Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) in its 75 years of operating in Uganda. This is what over three Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government
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Read MoreAGT Laboratories: How Local Investor Built Regional Tissue Culture Technology Giant Company
AGT’s banana plantings ready for transplanting By David Rupiny In the early 2000s, coffee and banana farmers faced a huge problem of bacterial wilt disease, which wiped out swathes of plantations across the country, especially in central and western parts of Uganda. “It was like a bush-fire sweeping across the countryside,”
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