Uganda’s ministry of agriculture has announced that it is on high alert over an eminent threat of desert locusts that have invaded the East African Region especially the neighboring Kenya. The revelation was made on Friday by Aggrey Bagiire, the State Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries during a press briefing at the Ugandan […]
President Yoweri Museveni has directed the new Prime Minister Amama Mbabazi to ensure creation of new seed board to be established within the next two months in the ministry of agriculture. The functions of the board would be collection, management, and storage of seeds that would be grown the next season of bumper harvest in […]
The Uganda state minister for agriculture Bright Rwamirama has appealed to Kabarole district farmers to form groups in order to benefit from Uganda government agricultural modernization programmes. He says farmers in groups can also easily access bigger markets because they have bigger products to sell to the market and can easily access loans and machines […]
Pests have attacked Kayunga district, destroying hundreds of hectares of coffee plantations sending area coffee farmers in panic according to the Uganda Ministry Agriculture. The Commissioner in charge of crop protection in the Uganda Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, Bulegeya Komayombi told journalists today (25th June 2010) that the pest is moving at […]