Tag Archives: farming

Soc Trang , Vietnam | AFP | With a flashy gold watch and a chunky matching ring, Tang Van Cuol looks a far cry from the average Vietnamese farmer as he slings back a shot of rice wine and boasts about his projected earnings. After years scratching a living growing rice …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Milk processing firm, Fresh Dairy, grew its export earnings by 60% to US$16million (Shs92.5bn) last year on the back of improved quality of products. Fresh Dairy’s Director of Milk Procurement ,John Gethi, said the company is working with over 80 farmers’ groups countrywide and …

Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | African countries are currently having trouble releasing their biotech crops popularly known as Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) to farmers, but scientists seem to be embracing a new strategy to ensure that there exist relevant regulatory systems. On July 18, the biosafety agencies and partners across …

The prize-winning tech helping Ghana’s farmers to grow, pioneering legal services online in Uganda Accra, Ghana | AFP |  Agyei Douglas is a farmer who grows vegetables near Kumasi in Ghana’s central Ashanti region. He used to struggle to access markets and capital. The information he needed was broadcast on …

  Three top Chief Executive Officers from three different sectors  have called on government and the private sector to think big about transforming Uganda’s current peasantry and subsistence agriculture, to a new commercial level Jimmy Mugerwa, the General Manager at Tullow Oil Uganda, William Sekabembe, the Executive Director at dfcu …

Uganda isn’t a bad country, it’s us the people who have let this country down. Lets walk our talk. Talk doesn’t cook rice like the Chinese say COMMENT | By Amos Wekesa | Rey is an amazing guy based in Fort Portal where he owns and runs Philippine Wood-works and Construction. His …

The National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) has advised farmers to pay attention to their gardens to counter possible threats related to the Fall Army Worm that recently hit maize farmers in 65 districts of Uganda. Speaking on the sidelines of the World Bank’s Open Day event at Kololo Airstrip on …

Chinese Embassy Reinforces OWC The Chinese Ambassador to Uganda Zheng Zhugiang has said his country will do whatever it takes to help Uganda’s efforts of attainment of the middle income status. Speaking during a function to hand over two pickups to Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) on Monday, Amb. Zhugiang said …

Former African Union Commissioner Tumusiime roots for increased agricultural funding as she launches her autobiography Former African Union (AU) Commissioner Rhoda Peace Tumusiime has demanded that Uganda’s finance ministry explains why the agricultural sector is underfunded. “When are you making the 10 percent budget allocation to agriculture? This is a decision at a …

  President Yoweri Museveni has urged local and political leaders in Busoga to sensitize the people against land fragmentation saying the practice, rampant among the predominantly agriculture dependent communities threatens food security and is a source of poverty. “Land fragmentation is a big problem. If not well addressed, it is …