Tag Archives: Vincent Ssempijja

Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government has cleared the management of Ayuu Alali Sugarcane project in Lamwo district to source casual laborers from Busoga sub region and Local Defense Unit (LDU) personnel to plant sugarcane. The Health Minister, Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng announced the decision while visiting the sugarcane project …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Efforts to contain the invasion of desert locusts are on going across the East African region despite limits on the flow of personnel and equipment stemming from the global COVID-19 pandemic. The Food and Agriculture Organization-FAO says that the infestation of locusts regarded as the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The outbreak of the COVID-19 has presented a number of challenges in the fight against desert locusts that have resurfaced in parts of Uganda. Agriculture Minister Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja says that they are currently unable to buy nose masks because of the stiff competition …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Farmers should not sit home because of the coronavirus lockdown but instead go-ahead to plant and tender to their gardens, Agriculture Minister Vincent Ssempijja has said. Ssempijja told reporters in Kampala that it was already a planting season and farmers should observe Ministry of Health guidelines to …

Buvuma, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Kewerimiire Fish Farmers Association in Busamuzi sub county, Buvuma district have resorted to homemade feeds in order to avoid the high cost of commercial fish feeds. The 16 farmers started cage fish farming at the height of operations by the Uganda People’s …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Government is expecting more chemicals to use in aerial spraying of desert locusts. Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja told journalists at Uganda Media Center on Tuesday that the supplier of the specialized Fenittrothion 96% ULV chemical, Twiga Chemicals has …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Commander of Land Forces in the UPDF, Lt. Gen. Peter Elwelu has said that people crying and making poverty a topic of discussion on daily basis should be arrested. Gen. Elwelu, speaking at the belated NRM function in Kamuda sub county, Soroti district yesterday …

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  |  Vincent Ssempijja, the Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries Minister, has differed with parliament on the suspension of operations by the Uganda People’s Defense Forces-UPDF Fisheries Unit against illegal fishing activities. In December last year, parliament resolved to halt the operations of the UPDF Fisheries Unit …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) has suspended the distribution of more than 240 tractors to farmer groups around the country.      The tractors were procured under the second priority area of the 2016 – 2020 Agriculture Sector Strategic Development Plan for mechanization …