Grace Musimami Alliance for Green Revolution for Africa (AGRA), the Agriculture Ministry, and Uganda investment Authority have launched the 2021 agribusiness deal room Uganda chapter, the deal room is to create opportunities for a matchmaking platform for new business deals, partnerships and commitments. Officiating at the launch, Mr Lawrence Byensi the Acting Executive director of […]
Uganda’s Agriculture Permanent Secretary Pius Wakabi Kasaijja at Ministry Headquarters in Entebbe
By Kezirone Wokubira Agriculture Extension actors have been urged to put farmers first as they plan climate change and climate-smart agriculture technologies. According to Dr. Nakalet Opolot the Commissioner of Agriculture extension and skilling Programme at the Ministry of agriculture, Many Farmers have been left out in the planning process which makes it hard for […]
By Grace Musimami Agriculture Extension Practitioners have urged the Ugandan government to invest in agriculture education if the country is to help boost the economy. The old students of Makerere University, College of Agriculture and Environmental Science and Department of Agricultural Extension & Innovation Studies and beneficiaries of Supervised Enterprise Project under funding from Sasakawa […]
Farmers Media reporter Weather changes are one of the biggest challenges that affect agriculture not only in Uganda but worldwide. 50 year old David Cherrey, a barley farmer from Kwenutcell, Kapron sub-county in Kween district located in the East of Uganda, says that the natural calamities such as excess rains in the region have greatly […]
Regularly cleaning your Farberware coffee pots ensures good tasting caffeine and your caffeine creator doing work as you desire it. Generally there are build residues and ups inside the coffee maker which affects the move of coffees in your appliance. Regarding to MedlinePlus, while an 8-ounces pot of caffeine is made up of 95 to […]
Weather prediction is a challenge that many farmers suffer especially those growing crops like barley. According to Livingstone Tumusiime, a farmer in Bufundi Sub country, Rubanda district, often they plant seeds and suffer severe moisture stress due to unpredictable rains or sometimes prepare their gardens but the rainfall does not come. “Being unable to tell […]
By Kezirone Wokubira In the last few months, since the outbreak of the COVID 19, pandemic, banana Farmers suffered a historical price fall crisis for their bananas, the price of a bunch of banana commonly referred to as Matooke dropped to almost 5000 shillings ($1) from its 20,000 shillings mark in open market(about $4). This […]
By Grace Musimami Sasakawa Africa Association Uganda anon governmental Programme has launched COVID 19 interventions to support extension service providers across the country in an effort to reach Farmers and increase production during the COVID 19 Pandemic production season, according to Dr Roseline Nyamutale Sasakawa Country director, many farmers were not producing normally because they […]
Grace Musimami A cross section of stakeholders have embraced a new project by the international institute of tropical agriculture (IITA) to control and mitigate Aflatoxin at farm level using a biological control product called Aflasafe. The stakeholders who included grain traders, academia, Farmers, media and Policymakers welcomed the four year project recently launched in Uganda […]
