Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The fisheries directorate at the agriculture ministry and the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces Fisheries Protection Unit-FPU, have this Wednesday started distributing stocks of impounded smoked fish to Uganda Prisons Services and the vulnerable who include orphans and widows within Kampala Metropolitan area. The immature fish, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The new Minister for Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Frank Tumwebaze says his leadership will engage directly with farmers rather than holding conferences. Tumwebaze who took over from Vincent Ssempijja on June 22, made the statement during the handover ceremony held at the agriculture ministry …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has advised farmers to take seriously complaints from regional and international markets about the quality of Ugandan produce. Ugandan products have undergone a series of rejection over the last three years from the regional markets of Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania over quality concerns and …
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Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Moroto district has rolled out a sensitization drive about desert locusts in a move to scale up surveillance. A technical team led by the Moroto district production officer, Dr. Francis Inangolet Olaki has begun field visits to communities at the Uganda – Kenya border …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | In the wake of the fresh foot and mouth disease outbreak within the cattle corridor, the two ministries mandated to champion the fight against trans-boundary diseases, FMD in particular, are embroiled in a fight on who takes lead and how the cattle quarantine should …
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