Forget Oil, Focus on Agriculture, Ugandans Told
The Singaporean minister of state for trade and industry says the government should not lose sight of the agricultural sector to the mining and extractive industry as a result of the newly discovered oil deposits.
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Uganda:
Uganda to Get New Strategy for Agricultural Extension to Replace Naads
Monitor, 20 April 2016
A new strategy that will guide agriculture extension in Uganda is in the offing following validation by a wide range of stakeholders from public and private sectors, development… Read more »
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Uganda:
Farmers Embrace Field Schools to Cope With Climate Change
Monitor, 20 April 2016
Several studies conducted on climate change and variability have confirmed that Uganda is vulnerable. Read more »
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Uganda:
Why Ugandans Invest in Malls Instead of Farming
Monitor, 18 April 2016
In the ever-elusive quest to develop and transform Ugandan and African agriculture, two key Ugandan officials recently published related articles on the subject, in the same daily,… Read more »
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Uganda:
How the Army Can Promote Farming
Monitor, 13 April 2016
About two weeks ago, UPDF top leaders were on TV defending the need for further funding of their activities in the National Agricultural and Advisory Services (Naads) before a… Read more »
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Uganda:
Imports of Cheap Crude Palm Stifle Uganda's Oilseed Farming
East African, 5 April 2016
The Kazimingi area of Jinja, once designated as Uganda's industrial hub, is today a shell of rusty disused oil mills and crumbling buildings -- testimony to a bygone era, when… Read more »
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Uganda:
Chinese to Train 10,000 Ugandan Farmers
Monitor, 30 March 2016
Uganda and China have embarked on a two-year project to benefit more than 10,000 farmers who will be trained in mechanised agriculture and value-addition. Read more »
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Uganda:
Agricultural Financing Policy in Offing - Government
Monitor, 4 March 2016
Government has committed itself to developing a policy that will help farmers transform from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture through coordinated financing strategies. Read more »
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Uganda:
Walking the Talk On Commercialising Agriculture
Monitor, 1 March 2016
Watching the presidential candidates sell their ideas to their electorates during the presidential debate the subject of commercialising agriculture came up as a strategy to revamp… Read more »
