By Jacklyne Mbonabyenja Kiryandongo: Tuesday February 25, 2025 In the vicinity of homesteads in Kiryandongo refugee settlement, clean well set vegetable gardens blossom. Majority of the backyard farms are operated by women who also practice mixed farming, intercropping, mulching, growing high breed crops, using organic fertilizers and carrying out irrigation …
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February, 2025
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22 February
‘PROSPER WOMEN’ MAKING A DIFFERENCE WITH VEGETABLE GROWING IN ARUA CITY
BY STEPHEN CANDIA ARUA: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025 There is a sense of wonder that has gripped the friends and neighbors of Charity Kayomirwoth, 31 and her colleagues Margaret Atimango and Gladys Piyic after they successfully turned a bushy and grove inhabited area along the banks of River Enyau in …
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22 February
PANYIMUR BUSINESS GROUP SHIFT FROM FISH TO GOAT RARING TO OVERCOME LIVELIHOOD DISRUPTIONS DUE TO BAD WEATHER
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU PAKWACH: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2025 In Panyimur, a town council bordering Lake Albert and River Nile in the West Nile district of Pakwach, fluctuations in the water level and reduction in the population of mukene (silverfish) are causing anxiety. This, coupled with limited adaptive capacity to cope …
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17 February
WEST ACHOLI FARMERS USE CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE TO EARN BIG
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10 February
Arua’s Female Farmer Turns Urban Farming into a Thriving Enterprise, Aims to Lead Sunflower Oil Production in West Nile
Arua’s Female Farmer Turns Urban Farming into a Thriving Enterprise, Aims to Lead Sunflower Oil Production in West Nile By Matata Benzamin Arua: Monday, February 16, 2025 In the heart of Arua City, a woman’s passion for farming has turned into a thriving business empire. Caroline Lilly Ocanda, a 56, …
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6 February
LIRA WOMEN FARMERS TURN TO SOLAR IRRIGATION FARMING TO MITIGATE CLIMATE CHANGE
BY JOSEPH OKUL LIRA: Thursday, February 6, 2025 As an experienced farmer for over two decades, Judith Ayo, a resident of Alepo village, Ayamo parish, Bar sub county expressed high hopes that her recent adoption of solar powered irrigation will gradually lead to increasing her annual incomes. Ayo grows cabbage …
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January, 2025
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20 January
COVID-19 RESPONSE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FUNDING CHANGING THE HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE IN WEST NILE
A section of the emergence call and dispatch center in Arua BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU AND MUSINGUZI GOODLUCK Monday, January 20, 2025 When the Ministry of Health of Uganda took a bold step to stop importation of Covid-19 …
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18 January
WHY INPUTS AND MARKET DISCOUNT MODELS COULD SPUR UPTAKE OF SOIL TESTING SERVICES BY SMALL-HOLDER FARMERS IN NORTHERN UGANDA
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU Saturday, January 18, 2025 Despite the growing importance of soil testing to enhance small-holder farmers’ (SHF) agricultural productivity, the rigidity of northern Uganda farmers on traditional farming practices, limited awareness, the relatively high cost of carrying out soil testing and low penetration by private soil testing actors …
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6 January
ANDRIVU CHRISTIANS FEEL AT PEACE UNDER FAVOUR PRAYER CHURCH MINISTRIES
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2025 After years of struggling, Margaret Alezuyo, a resident of Andrivu, in Arua city says they feels at peace as the church came under the management of FAVOUR Prayer Church Ministries. Alezuyo began embracing spiritual worship after she was perturbed by instability at …
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6 January
ONDUPARAKA FOOTBALL CLUB FANS BEGINS SH250M MOBILIZATION FOR MINI-BUS
BY RICHARD DRASIMAKU ARUA: MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 2025 In a bid to assuage the club fortunes and drive down operational costs, the Onduparaka Football Club Fans’ Association has launched a mobilization drive for sh250m to purchase an omni-bus to transport players. Transport is one of the biggest expenses draining club …
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