Agriculture

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU TEREGO: FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 2023 In terms of labour requirements, chia has a clear comparative advantage over tobacco since it takes just two-and-a-half months from planting to maturity and doesn’t require weeding. It is also said to be good for people with diabetes, hypertension and other non-communicable …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 08, 2023 The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has approved eight product lines of the Nile Natural Fruit products, allowing the Arua juice factory to use the Uganda standards certification mark (Q-mark) on its labels. The Private Sector Foundation Uganda paid sh5m to …

BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU KASESE: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 While a 14-year old pupil in primary five in 1994, Julius Tumushabe got lured into poaching by peers and turned his back on school. On his debut day, he went out into the wilderness of the sprawling Queen Elizabeth National park in …

By Edward Akaki – Moroto, Karamoja On a humanitarian ground, everyone deserves a right to life, health and clean water and sanitation, afact that thousands in Karamoja see as a myth due to changing climatic conditions. The suffering and pain in Uganda’s north-eastern pastoralist region, is visible in massive crop …

Thursday, 9 February 2023 By Timothy Eodu Karamoja leaders moot for community involvement in security roads construction. Several leaders from Karamoja have called upon the ministry of works and it’s constructors to consider using the local population especially the karacunas (youth). The leaders urge that some of these karacunas (youth) …

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 …