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Members of Parliament on the agricultural committee have raised concern over the unfair distribution of seeds by Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) under the Operation Wealth Creation Program. The Woman Member of Parliament for Mukono district, Peace Kusasira says officials form the operation wealth creation are distributing seeds to rich people instead of the poor […]
Rose Mutonyi Masaba the Bubulo County West MP in Manafwa District has urged youths to embrace operation wealth creation if they are to fight poverty. Addressing journalists at Parliament Mutonyi said that youths don’t want to participate in wealth creation because they think it’s for the elderly people. She noted that many of the youth […]
News Release MARLBOROUGH HOUSE SMALL STATES CONSENSUS Introduction 1. As representatives of small states from the Africa, Asia-Pacific and Caribbean Regions, we participated in the first Small States Biennial Conference, held at Marlborough House, London on 28 and 29 July 2010. The conference was convened by the Commonwealth Secretariat in response to the call of […]
PRESS RELEASE/ WEBTORIAL Group will recommend options to sharpen impact, strengthen networks and raise profile of the Commonwealth Commonwealth Secretary–General Kamalesh Sharma on 7 July announced members of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group (EPG). “This distinguished Group will set out decisive recommendations on how to strengthen the Commonwealth and fulfill its potential in the 21st […]
The government of Uganda has committed a sum of Uganda Shillings 100 billion towards re-stabilizing the maize prices.The money will be available in a weeks-time and channeled through Bank of Uganda Agriculture Credit Facility. A 15 per cent interest rate shall be levied from businessmen interested in getting the loan to buy the Maize grains […]
Story By Sierra Ruth Stanbic bank Uganda is to invest UGShs. 400 Million in micro and small scale agribusinesses. It has partnered with CURAD, an agribusiness to bring about agribusiness development. The main aim of this partnership to target micro and small agriculture business through offering management skills. It also includes training the small business owners to explore […]
The Chinese government has asked government has asked policy makers in the country to ensure more resources are allocated to develop the agriculture sector. The Chinese Ambassador to Uganda Zheng Zhugiang said, although government is focusing on developing the industrial sector, the agricultural sector must not be ignored. He said the agriculture can provide employment […]
President Yoweri Museveni has assured crime preventers in the country that they will maintain their duties as they are now regarded as a Reserve Army of the Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF), State House Uganda reports. “A few weeks ago, I saw in the papers and somebody said that the fate of the crime preventers […]
Government has resolved to phase out the supply of free planting materials and animals to farmers after noticing losses. This was revealed by the minister of Agriculture, Vincent sempijja, while meeting with the seed companies, the parliamentary committee on Agriculture and officials from operation wealth creation at parliament. Sempijja said that government will attach a […]
President Yoweri Museveni has called for blocking all the ways and causes of disability adding that the number of People With Disabilities (PWDs) should not grow beyond 4.4 million of the national population. “We need to block all the possibilities of disability to prevent more disabilities like we did to eradicate polio and measles. Even […]