BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU MARACHA: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2025 In the rural plains of Maracha district where mairungi and tobacco once ruled the gardens, a green revolution is quietly unfolding, hinged on cocoa as a surprise game-changing cash crop. One-by-one, households are digging themselves out of abject poverty. This is after …
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RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2025 The Arua East-West Bee Products enterprises has scoped a coveted best exhibitor’s award during the 14th annual honey week. Vicky Eyokia, the proprietor of the enterprise noted that the national recognition is positive gesture from top bras in the honey industry and confidence …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2025 The Equity Bank has identified structural barriers as a major hindrance to the growth of Small and Medium Enterprises in Uganda’s West Nile Sub-region. To eliminate those barriers and unlock the potential of the SME’s the bank is emphasizing record keeping and …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 2025 The Parish Development Model (PDM), government’s latest flagship program for poverty eradication has given financing capital to 14,812 people in Arua city since 2022. The beneficiaries are from 54 savings and credit cooperative organisations (SACCOS), six of whom are from the Central …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: Thursday, August 14, 2025 A multi-million shillings family business that went nuts following the demise of two key founding members has rejuvenated following the creative intervention by Vicky Ozia Eyokia in 2023. An accountant by profession, Eyokia abandoned her business activities in Yumbe district to take …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 2025 The activities under the Operation Wealth Creation, a nascent government poverty eradication program in West Nile are expected to receive new impetus following the appointment of Rt Maj Gen Michael Ondoga, a distinguished army officer to oversee the program in Uganda’s North-Western …
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BY WILFRED LAMONY JWEE NWOYA: MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2025 Juliet Layet, 28, is an enterprising farmer in Otingo Cung in Mulago cell Geyi ward in Koch Goma Town Council, Nwoya district. Layet, a member of Obol Farmers’ Group that has 57 members explains that she had used traditional hand hoes …
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BY Robert Mone LAMWO: MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 2025 Dorcus Anyiri, is a single mother at block 12, Zone 5B, a refugee settlement in Lamwo district who fled from unrest in South Sudan in 2017. Since her arrival, Anyiri has engaged in nursery bed management and tree planting to enhance her family’s livelihood, turning …
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BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 2025 Bernard Atiku, a contestant for the Ayivu West constituency National Resistance Movement party flag bearer has received a rare endorsement from his opponent Fiona Onzima for introducing Cocoa as a cash crop to eradicate poverty in the constituency. “Thank you Hon Atiku …
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By Richard Drasimaku ARIA CITY: 22/6/2025 Atiku said at the current price, a farmer can earn about sh88m from one acre of cocoa plantation. When planted at the recommended spacing of 3m×3m, a farmer would have 450 cocoa tree and the trees yield between 1kg and 2 kg in first …
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