According to Bintamanya, Rubona has become so useless that when Operation Wealth Creation - OWC was recently tasked by President Museveni to procure 150 heifers for Rwengaju model parish farmers in Kabarole but they only managed to buy 70 cows from Bushenyi district at Shillings 2.5 million
Read more ...Rukunya says the Agriculture Ministry and FAO have embarked on strengthening research laboratories at the Fisheries Institute and Makerere University with the necessary equipment and train technical persons in bio-security matters.
Read more ...Abel Bizimana, the Kisoro District LC V Chairman, says it was unnecessary for Kamara to make radio announcements warning tea nursery bed operators against attending the meeting organised by Byaruhanga.
Read more ...Vicky Ochan, the vice chairperson of the group says members have been forced to mill their rice from millers charging them exorbitant prices in Gulu Town.
Read more ...In September, Horyal Investment Holding Company started clearing 12,000-acres of land.
Read more ...Julius Kathungu a farmer of cotton and maize at Buyinanule village near Queen Elizabeth says that passing of the bill comes as a sigh of relief. He says that he will no longer incur losses like it has always been the previous seasons whenever elephants strayed into his crop fields.
Read more ...George William Kajura, the Nakasongola District Education Officer, says the deceased pupil suffocated to death when the matron left her behind as she was trying to save other pupils.
Read more ...According to Bintamanya, Rubona has become so useless that when Operation Wealth Creation - OWC was recently tasked by President Museveni to procure 150 heifers for Rwengaju model parish farmers in Kabarole but they only managed to buy 70 cows from Bushenyi district at Shillings 2.5 million
Read more ...The CAO, in her January 30th reply to the Ministrys Permanent Secretary argued that the district will be overwhelmed as it was hosting the 38th Tarehe Sita anniversary on February 6, and subsequently International Janani Luwum Day on 16 February.
Read more ...The incident comes barely four months after the factory suffered losses of more than 250 acres of sugar cane plantation.
Read more ...According to Baraka Muhindo, a farmer in Rwembyo village, their farms were devastated by a long dry spell that dried up the cash crop.
Read more ...Gen Saleh has pitched camp in Kasese district for about three months now and has, among other things, seen the approval of a 119 billion Shillings investment plan by Kasese district council to be financed under the Agri-led project. But, he says that he has not been in a position to get good contact with the ordinary people, who form part of the population that depends on subsistence farming.
Read more ...One of the staff at the office who preferred anonymity to be able to speak freely about the matter says that the production rates dropped after the operation by the State House Anti-corruption Monitoring Unit. The staff member says that a number of their colleagues were transferred, others willingly quit and the new appointees have also not turned up.
Read more ...Banana Bacteria Wilt disease, locally known as Kiwotoka, is mostly observed on plants after the maiden sucker stage. It is characterized by purse-like liquid, yellowing, wilting which starts with the leaves, and ripening of premature bananas. The destructive wilt has the capacity to wipe the plantation by over 90 percent.
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