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When Martin Agaba realised his urban farm had run out of space, he decided the solution was not to expand outwards but upwards. “We realised we had to use the roof,” he says. Of all the innovations...
Would you pay more for your coffee if you knew exactly where it came from and how it got to you? An increasing number of Western "millennial" consumers would, and it's benefiting everyone from the ...
Looking at Africa as a whole, it is the agricultural sector that will see a revolution with farmers creating the high productivity jobs and sustainable economic growth that wasn't realized with mining...
Uganda to benefit from $280m multi-donor agriculture fundMore than 95% of investments in agriculture go to increasing yields and production. What is over looked, however, is the over 30% of food stuff...
Uganda is the second country in the world with the biggest number of refugees and has been praised for the welcome it has continuously given to the refugees. Director General of Food and Agricultur...
On December 12, 2015, the 21st Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change approved the Paris Agreement committing 195 nations of the world to “holding the increase in t...
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Uganda Dairy Products Market Outlook to 2020 - High Demand for Flavor Milk and Ice Cream in Uganda is Projected to Spur the Dairy Market" report...
The government has asked Ugandans and neighboring countries dealing in poultry products, especially domestic birds, not to worry about bird flu saying it was under control. According to Vincent Sse...
Uganda became the latest country to report suspected H5N8 outbreaks, as countries in many parts of Europe already affected by the virus reported fresh detections in wild birds and poultry, according t...
To encourage more people to get into agribusiness, government in the financial year that started on July 1st decided to strike down 18% Value Added Tax (VAT) on the supply of machinery used for the pr...
The Ugandan government has said that the livestock sector is attracting more investors especially in dairy processing which in turn is helping farmers earn more from the sector. President Museveni ...
Agricultural experts have poked holes in the government's strategy to use the sector to drive the country into a middle income status, saying it is far-fetched. As long as agriculture continue to b...
Makerere University students in Uganda have created a mobile application that provides smallholder farmers with real-time information on markets, the latest news on farming inputs and eliminates profi...
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a US $76.7-million loan to finance phase two of the Uganda Farm Income Enhancement and Forestry Conservation Programme (FIEFOC-2). The programme, wh...
Government has maintained the ban on the exportation of agricultural produce to the European Union (EU) market following persistent complaints over their poor quality, state minister for Agriculture, ...
When a chunk of about eight-acres of land broke off and floated away with garden crops for about six kilometres, residents of Bukasa landing site near Munyoyo did not sit back and watch their food dri...
Land ownership in Uganda is a contentious issue. As such debate on whether youth should either access land or own land to be able to practice agriculture is fast becoming a national concern. My v...
Government should take deliberate efforts to increase funding in agriculture research to increase food production in the country, civil society oraganisations have said. Their argument is that agr...
The Ugandan government is in talks with China to boost agricultural production in the East African country, Uganda's minister of agriculture Tress Buchanayandi said Thursday. Buchanayandi said that...
More investments need to be plunged into the agricultural value chain for Uganda to achieve sustainable economic growth and development, Dr. Kisamba-Mugerwa, the chairperson of the National Planning A...
In 2013, agriculture in Uganda contributed 23.9% of the total GDP and provided approximately 82% of the employment. As a result the sector has received significant donor support, with part of the prop...
Uganda’s agriculture ministry is to recruit more livestock extension services providers in order to improve the health of the cattle across the country and advise farmers on modern livestock practices...
Of the many factors that keep small-scale Ugandan farmers poor, seed counterfeiting may be the least understood. Passing under the radar of the international development sector, a whole illegal indust...
The ministry of agriculture animal industry and fisheries has warned small scale farmers against depending on organic fertilizers as the main source of nutrients for food crops. Addressing the 6th ...
By mid-January, Henry Kiwanuka had cleared his two acres of land to plant groundnuts ahead of the February planting season. But this was not to be. There was no rain until April. Kiwanuka had to wait....
Meeting the International Monetary Fund delegation at State House Entebbe recently, President Museveni said a deliberate move is necessary to change the attitude of the people to adopt commercial agri...
Government has asked investors to stop branding the agricultural sector as a risky area to invest if the country is to address the key destabilizing challenge of agricultural risks. The call was ma...
The Sri Lankan and Ugandan delegations led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa and President Yoweri Museveni held bilateral talks yesterday at the State House in the city of Entebbe, approximately 40kms so...
Richard Ssekibuule looks at the success of kudu, a mobile auction market that links farmers to traders, with pride. He had never imagined that something that started as his PhD research would hit the ...
Stakeholders in the dairy industry have petitioned the Government to intervene and regulate the crossborder cattle trading business. The stakeholders said unless the Government intervenes, farms in...