Foot and Mouth Disease: Sembabule Counts UGX 500M Revenue Loss

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Foot and Mouth Disease: Sembabule Counts UGX 500M Revenue Loss

25 Oct 2018, 12:36 Comments 1067 Views Sembabule, Uganda Agriculture Analysis

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Cattle Ranchers in Sembabule are counting losses due to Food and Mouth Disease, the district has also registered local revenue losses due to Quarantine.

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Jude Kaginda, the Sembabule district Finance Secretary, says they have been performing poorly in local revenue collection over the last two years translating to about 43 percent. He says besides individual losses suffered by livestock farmers resulting from FMD, the district budget was equally affected by the quarantine.

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