More than 200 pineapple farmers in Luwero district are stuck with 8000 pineapples following a snag in the establishment of food processing plant in the district. Pineapple farmers in Luwero under the natural Uganda cooperative society limited petitioned president Yoweri Museveni demanding for a processing plant to add value for their organic pineapple. The president […]
Members of Parliament have asked the government to investigate the seeds which are on Uganda market following concerns that many of the seeds sold to farmers do not germinate. The MPs who include the woman MP for Ibanda district Margaret Kiboijana and the MP for Busiro north Prof .Gilbert Bukenya said that farmers are being […]
A farmer in Masaka is making significant progress in fighting the Banana bacterial wilt using herbal solution to treat infected plants. The 55 year old Gerald Ntabazi retired electrical Engineer mixes human and animal urine with 15 different herbs to make the solution that he administers on the affected plants. Ntabazi says that he got the […]
Centenary Bank, in partnership with the World Bank Group will today launch a program that will improve Centenary’s agriculture finance capacity to benefit emerging smallholder farmers, and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in key agricultural value chains. This initiative will provide an example to other financial institutions worldwide on how to successfully and sustainably finance smallholder agriculture. […]
A clinical officer only indentified as Godwin Obong in Aleputong district is in trouble for allegedly supplying fake agricultural sunflower seeds to over 100 farmers in Aleputong. Obong has been arrested for supplying fake seeds to farmers claiming they were bought from Mukwano industries. Trouble for Obong stemed from when the farmers tried to plant […]
Farmers in Ibanda town council have rejected poor quality farm inputs that were supplied to them under the NAADS program. The rejected faarm in puts include 20 heifers , 32 she goats, 20 piglets and 130 chicks. The farmers accuse the NAADs procurement committee of conniving with suppliers to swindle NAADS money. Eridadi Buchirolo one […]