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 STEPHEN CANDIA KOBOKO: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2024 For many years, the residents of Lobule sub-county in Koboko district endured torrent life due to dry long spells that adversely affected their agricultural output. Women were especially hardest hit as for various reasons, much of the burden of fending for the family …
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Tue 16, May 2023 Augustine Olule-Karamoja Police in Napak district in Karamoja sub region have impounded government vehicle registration Number UG 2524 A Toyota Hillux pickup, grey in colour belonging to the ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries carrying 16 jerrycans of illicit Waragi. The vehicle which was driven …
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BY OUR REPORTER Police in Kikuube district yesterday arrested one Ayebare Joseph, a senior official working with National Forestry Authority (NFA) attached to Bugoma forest for assaulting an Indian investor RAEHA RAMASAMY KRSHANA. The Indian investor is attached to Hoima Sugar and a farm manager of Nsozi farm where Hoima …
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By Timothy Eodu – Nabilatuk The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries – MAAIF has launched the Tractor Mechanized Scheme in Karamoja region. The launch which was done on Saturday 1st April 2023 from Lokapel village in Lorengedwat Sub County, Nabilatuk district, flagged off 10 tractors that will be used …
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By Edward Akaki – Moroto, Karamoja On a humanitarian ground, everyone deserves a right to life, health and clean water and sanitation, afact that thousands in Karamoja see as a myth due to changing climatic conditions. The suffering and pain in Uganda’s north-eastern pastoralist region, is visible in massive crop …
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BY EDWARD AKAKI The joint security forces in Karamoja region in a bid to stop commercialized cattle raids in the region have profiled and approved 28 cattle markets in the nine districts constituting Karamoja. This was revealed in security joint press on Thursday 15th September,2022 at the 3rd Infantry Division …
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By Otim Moses Farmers in mucwini sub-county in Kitgum district are earning big from the Non-governmental organization food for the hungry after empowering them on farm activities On Wednesday, groups of famers from six parishes yeba, pakuba, okol li kol, ogwapoke , pudo and pajong in mucwini sub-county in Kitgum …
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By Augustine Olule The state minister for agriculture sub crop sector has assured the people of Karamoja government intension to distribute quick maturing seeds to all farmers for planting this season as way of fighting food insecurity in the region. According to Mr. Bwino Fred Kyakulaga, the state minister of …
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