BERLIN, Germany, February 5, 2020/ — The worst locust infestation in decades is currently destroying crops and pastureland in the Horn of Africa. There is a risk...
The price of pineapples in Luweero district has dropped from Shs 2,000 to Shs 700 per piece following a bumper harvest. The price reduction is attributed...
Kampala, Uganda | The Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) has opened the UNBS national food safety laboratory building whose construction started in 2010 when the...
Despite a steady increase in coffee consumption around the world, trade prices have fallen dramatically in the past three years. Futures on arabica and robusta, the...
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...
Over 60 per cent of the 13 million head of local breed cattle in the country could be extinct by the year 2050, Joy Kabatsi, the...
Kampala, Uganda | ISAAC KHISA | For the recent decades, Africa’s indigenous animals such as the East Africa’s sinewy Ankole cattle; a product of the centuries of...
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...
BoU governor Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile The value added by the agricultural sector had shrunk from 49% in 1991 to 24% in 2018, Uganda’s economy could implode...