Do you want extension services or market information or a loan without meeting anyone face to face? For the farmers in northern Uganda and West Nile,...
A farmer uprooting weeds from his maize field in Kasese district. The COVID-19 lockdown has prevented farmers from accessing farm inputs. (File photo) AGRICULTURE Food production...
Livestock farmers in Nakasongola District have suffered another setback following a fresh outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), a few days to government’s planned lifting of the...
The Permanent Secretary Ministry of Water and Environment, Mr. Alfred Okot Okidi (C) speaks to officials at the event. PHOTO BY RAJAB MUKOMBOZI BUSHENYI-The United Nations...
Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | One of Uganda’s favourite crop, coffee, could soon be heavily regulated as the government takes a step to amend the existing...
A teller counts money in a bank. Bankers have started the conversation about lending more to the agriculture sector. the share of lending to agriculture as...
by Helen Castell As China’s government pledges to help funnel more aid, development finance and private-sector capital into African agriculture, what’s motivating the flow and is...
By Edward Makobore History, going back to biblical times, is heavily laden with stories demonstrating food as an ultimate game changer. In Genesis, there was the...
Kampala, Uganda | The budget allocation for the agriculture sector will in the next financial year pass the 1 trillion Shillings mark for the first time in...
Agriculture might be finally catching financiers’ eye, with money disbursed to farmers topping all other sectors in January, according to official figures released from the ministry of...