Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Atiak Sugar Factory in Amuru District is seeking additional government financing to install water pipelines from the River Nile to support irrigation for sustainable sugarcane cultivation and sugar production. This request comes after the government’s injection of 108 billion shillings in a supplementary budget …
Read More »Sugarcane growing to resume at Atiak sugar factory
Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Sugarcane growing is expected to resume in the plantation of Atiak Sugar Factory in Amuru and Lamwo districts by March, nearly a year after the factory shut down its operations citing a limited supply of canes. The closure came just a year after the factory owned …
Read More »Family members feud over 8,000 hectares hosting Atiak sugar factory
Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is a bitter fight among the children of the late John Omaya over the rights and usage of the more than 8,000 hectares of land hosting Atiak Sugar Factory in Amuru district. A section of the family members led by Peter Okee Ogik and …
Read More »Legislators caution gov’t over continued financial support to Atiak Sugar Factory
Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of legislators from the Acholi sub-region have cautioned the government against providing further funding to Atiak Sugar Factory in Atiak sub county, Amuru district. This comes in the wake of the temporary closure of the sugar factory, barely two years after it commenced …
Read More »Atiak sugar factory shuts down production over shortage of canes
Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Atiak sugar factory in Amuru district has temporarily shut down sugar production over inadequate cane supply. The factory commenced production of brown sugar for both domestic consumption and export in 2020, and was meant to get sugarcanes from out-growers in Amuru and Lamwo districts. Uganda …
Read More »Over 3,000 acres of Atiak sugar plantation destroyed in fire outbreak
Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than 3,000 acres for sugarcane out-growers in Atiak sub county in Amuru district worth billions of shillings were lost in a devastating fire that ravaged the Atiak sugarcane plantation over the weekend. More square miles which are yet to be measured were lost in the …
Read More »Atiak sugar plantation fire destroys UPDF detach in Amuru
Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Over a dozen Uganda People’s Defence Forces soldiers under the 71st Battalion in Okidi detach, Atiak sub county, Amuru district are homeless after a devastating fire razed down their huts. The fire reportedly began on Friday last week from a sugarcane plantation in Atiak sugar …
Read More »Fire ravages sugarcane plantation in Atiak sugar factory
Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Fire has destroyed an estimated 200 hectares of sugarcane under Atiak sugar factory, which belongs to Horyal Investments Company Limited in Amuru district. The fire believed to have been set by unknown people was first reported to the local authorities on Friday 10th. It escalated …
Read More »MPs reject UGX108Bn additional funding to Atiak sugar factory
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Budget Committee has rejected a consideration of a supplementary budget request worth 108 billion shillings as additional funding to Atiak sugar factory in Amuru district. The MPs say government has heavily invested in the company and yet the shares remain stagnant. They say that until …
Read More »Atiak sugar factory seeks Acholi Cultural Institution intervention over fires
Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Atiak sugar factory in Amuru district has asked the Acholi Cultural Institution to sensitize the community against destroying sugarcane plantations. For three years, the factory has been suffering devastating fires. Last year it lost 7,300 acres of already matured sugarcane plantations in Atiak sub county. …
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