The Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) has launched a programme to help boost the quality and amount of crops and livestock in Somaliland. The agricultural development project will also guide on measures against any threat of future drought. TIKA officials delivered 40 kilos of tomatoes, peppers, cabbage and lettuce seeds, along with pesticide and […]
dfcu Bank in partnership with Vision Group and the Netherlands Embassy has launched this year’s edition of the Harvest Money Expo that will take place from 14th – 16th February, at Mandela National Stadium, Nambole. Under the theme ‘Value Addition’, dfcu Bank and its partners seek to improve production and marketing of agricultural products to […]
Civil Society Organizations advocating for transparency in Uganda’s budget under their umbrella Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG) have expressed their dissatisfaction over the Government’s decision to cut allocations to key social sectors in the 2020/21 National Budget. While addressing journalists in Kampala, the Executive Director CSBAG Julius Mukunda said that in the 2020/21 budget […]
The number of seed varieties listed on the COMESA Variety Catalogue has increased to sixty-nine after seeds from two more companies namely Western Seed and SEEDCO were listed through the Uganda National Variety List. This has been made possible by the COMESA Seed Harmonization Implementation Plan (COMSHIP). COMSHIP, a COMESA Seed Programme working in close […]
Most African Countries may miss attaining the Sustainable Development Goals as it was envisioned by the World Leaders four years back. The Sustainable Development Goals that most countries will fail to achieve is the goal of Ending Poverty and Zero Hunger by 2030. “More than 820 million people in the world today do not have […]
Uganda’s Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries has carried forward by a month the Vanilla harvesting period starting from January 15th, 2020 as opposed to the earlier declared date of December 15, 2019. While addressing a press conference in Kampala, Christopher Kibazanga, the Minister of State for Agriculture said the changes have been enforced […]
Our continent is hurtling towards an uncertain future that is being shaped by the forces of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It’s too early to tell how exactly the confluence of rapid change and exponential technological advances will play out. But this much is clear: change will be constant and widespread. The uncertainty this creates has […]
President Yoweri Museveni has encouraged Danish agricultural investors to consider setting up agricultural processing and production industries in Uganda as opposed to the costly process of importing agriculture machines. The President made the remarks while in a meeting with a visiting Danish agribusiness and food tech-business delegation from the Danish Agriculture and Food Council led […]
The Agriculture sector is considered as the backbone of Uganda’s economy. This is because the sector employs the largest number of Ugandans especially women and a reasonable percentage of the youth. According to Agricultural Economists, the Sector is not performing well due to the fact that it is over-challenged by many problems ranging from harsh […]
Twiga Foods, the Kenyan B2B food distribution company, has raised $23.75 million in a Series B equity round led by Goldman Sachs, with participation from existing investors including the International Finance Corporation, TLcom Capital and Creadev. An additional $6 million in debt was raised from OPIC and Alpha Mundi. Since its launch in Nairobi in […]
With almost all available arable land in the Americas, Europe and Asia already productively farmed using the most developed agricultural techniques, Africa, with 60% of the world’s uncultivated arable land presents a major opportunity to meet the 70% increase in global food demand expected by 2050. Land aside, however, Africa presents a further opportunity for […]
As Uganda will be joining the rest of the World to celebrate the International Day for Rural Women and also the World Food Day, Agricultural Activists are calling upon the Uganda Government to support Women especially those in rural areas to effectively adopt Organic Farming Practices which they urge are environmentally friendly and cheap to […]
The importance of Agriculture for inclusive growth is reiterated in various national development strategies but not translated into public expenditures for the sector. According to a World Bank Report released in Uganda recently, it should be a priority for the government to steer public investments in agriculture towards the provision of public goods such as […]