Agriculture

By Goodluck Musinguzi Kassanda District Task Force hosted the National Strategic Committee and Response Partners on Ebola a number of times after President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni announced the 21 days lockdown. They held dialogues with the community at Bweyongede, the district council and other areas many times to increase awareness …

By Goodluck Musinguzi 26 days after announcing the Ebola outbreak in Uganda, the Ministry of Health has been forced to recommend a lockdown in two districts of Mubende and Kasanda the epi-centre of the viral disease. President Yoweri Museveni narrated how two known family members decided to visit other districts …

UPDF Amplifies Greening Uganda Campaign With Local Governments To Promote Orchard Farming And Environmental Conservation The Uganda Peoples’ Defence Forces (UPDF) has today partnered with the Local Governments of Manafwa and Mbale districts to promote orchard farming and environmental conservation in the Elgon Sub-region with support of fruits & indigenous …

BY KASLINE GLADYS LAKAREBER PADER: SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2022 The prices of leading food crops have gone down in Pader district as harvest season peaks. Mark Ojok, a farmer based in Pagwari village Pader town council, attributed the dramatic fall of prices to dominance by middlemen and absence of farmers’ …

By Goodluck Musinguzi As part of Uganda People’s Defence Forces9UPDF)  2022 Tarehe Sita operations on the Greening Uganda Campaign, more than 5000 fruit and indigenous trees will be grown in this October rainy season. Tree seedlings were loaded and delivered to Elgon regions on 21st October 2022. “We launched the …

BY GEOFREY ACHORA PAKWACH: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2022 Forty-six kilometers north-west of Pakwach town along the Pakwack-Pawor-Arua road, the landscape was changing 12 months ago. Mushrooming office buildings, storage facilities, artificial reservoirs and dams and secondary water canals were turning a hitherto 1,000 hectares of underutilized land into what is …

Thursday 13, Oct 2022 By Lawrence Okwakol-Pallisa The Kamuge town council local leadership in Pallisa district on Tuesday afternoon resolved to suspend the recommendation of youths going to Middle East for domestic employment (kyeyo). The leaders reached to this resolution due to the rampant sale of land by most parents …

BY MARKO TAIBOT ADJUMANI: MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2022 South Sudan refugees in Adjumani district engaged in commercial farming in partnership with host communities have a means to the production of maize and cassava after they received a tractor from the Action Against Hunger (ACF). ACF under the Right to Grow Project …

Friday, 30th September 2022 Timothy Eodu-Amudat The leaders of Amudat district in Karamoja region have expressed their gratitude to Karamoja Women Umbrella Organization KAWUO for their interventions to transform the society mindset into adopting value addition. KAWUO with the financial support from European Union-UN Spotlight initiative through UNDP has created …

BY EDWARD AKAKI The joint security forces in Karamoja region in a bid to stop commercialized cattle raids in the region have profiled and approved 28 cattle markets in the nine districts constituting Karamoja. This was revealed in security joint press on Thursday 15th September,2022 at the 3rd Infantry Division …