Tag Archives: palm oil

Kalangala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Patrick Kankaka, a pioneer palm oil outgrower in Kalangala, has died aged 76 years. Kankaka was among the first 10 farmers who planted oil palm in Beta East Bloc, Mugoye Sub County, Kalangala District in 2008 when the island population was still suspicious and resisting …

Buvama, Uganda  | THE INDEPENDENT |  Buvuma District authorities are concerned about the poor state of road connecting to out grower’s gardens ahead of the planting of palm oil seedlings. The National Oil Palm Project-NOPP is finalising preparations to receive about 36, 000 seedlings from Benin in March this year for …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Agriculture has announced that all its departments will replicate a 4P model used in the production of Palm Oil in order to increase productivity. The 4P model consists of Public, producer, Private Partnership, which engages the farmer, government, funders and private developers …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has directed Finance Ministry to start the process of renegotiating an agreement with an Edible Oil Refinery company-which is in the country to develop the palm oil industry. Government through the Finance Ministry in 2003 entered an agreement with the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries Minister, Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja has asked Buvuma district residents to support the proposed palm oil project by providing the necessary land. Ssempijja made the appeal during his two day visit to Buvuma district. He was taken around the 5000 …