Agriculture

Rancher's Finest, a leading provider of premium quality meats, reaffirms its firm commitment to maintaining the highest standards of safety and hygiene in its meat processing facilities. In light of the recent foot and mouth...

Deputy Speaker Thomas Tayebwa has demanded that government allows nursery bed operators to supply coffee and tea seedlings to farmers before the rainy season ends. He was responding to the statement by the finance minister,...

Uganda’s revenue from export of dairy products has risen from $131.5m (Shs 480bn) in 2018 to $205m (750bn) in 2020 according to records from the Dairy Development Authority (DDA). This was revealed by Dr. Michael...

Agriculture Minister Frank Tumwebaze has declared July 1, 2021, on-wards as the appropriate date to start harvesting vanilla for the first season of the year 2021. Tumwebaze said that declaration of harvest date is one...

Hon. Frank Tumwebaze has on Tuesday assumed office as Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries following a handover in Entebbe by outgoing minister Hon. Vincent Ssempijja. Hon. Tumwebaze, t has promised to apply a...

The Finance Minister, Matia Kasaija has said the Emyooga presidential initiative on wealth and job creation under the Microfinance Support Centre will help people get out of poverty but also raise some capital for their...

Bukoola Chemical Industries Ltd, the largest agro-chemical distributing companies in Uganda in partnership with the Anti-Counterfeit Network has today unveiled a campaign dubbed “Protect life…Twefeeko” aimed at creating awareness about fake agro-chemical inputs on the...

The world is turning to cannabis not only for its medical values but also its trade benefits and Uganda cannot afford to miss out, Rajiv Ruparelia, the managing director of Premier Hemp, one of the...

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni met with a visiting Danish agri and food tech-business delegation from the Danish Agriculture and Food Council at State House, Entebbe. Led by Mr Jeppe Sondergaard Pedersen, the Danish companies seeking to invest...

The Bank of Uganda (BoU) Governor, Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile has said he is uncomfortable with the high lending rates in the country, reports Innocent Kayiza.  He made the remarks while speaking at the third edition...