Farmers groups are warned against misusing the planting materials and animals extended to them for Agribusiness. This warning came as three farmers groups from Mityna,Wakiso and Entebbe were receiving piglets and passion fruit seedlings at a farmers meeting held at Cathy Gardens in Wakiso town. The Director Love ,Unity make Archives ministry based in Bweyogere […]
Government recruits a total of 2000 extension workers as part of the newly formulated National Agriculture Extension Policy and strategy aimed at bringing extension services closer to the farmers across the country. The Director Agriculture Extension services in the ministry of agriculture Beatrice Byarugaba says the extension workers were recruited last year with more being recruited […]
Members of parliament under the Uganda Parliamentarians Forum on Food Security, Population and Development have demanded a trillion shillings budget for the agriculture sector. Speaking to journalists at parliament the secretary General for this forum and MP for Kakuto county, Mathias Kasamba, said that its time for the government to find a big budget for agriculture […]
Opposition in parliament has attacked the NRM party youth members of parliament for promoting the issue of sole candidate for the president and forget demanding programmes addressing the problem of youth unemployment. The opposition Chief Whip Cecilia Ogwal Atim said that she is surprised that youth MPs keep quiet over unemployment which mostly affects youth and […]
The executive director SEATINI-Uganda, Ambassador Nathan Irumba, is cautioning governments of developing countries to desist from subjecting farmers to foreign dependence as this will drastically cause negative effects to agricultural development in these countries with Uganda being among them. According to Ambassador Irumba the continued importation of various agriculture policies from developed countries will not at any time help the […]
Youth under Civil Society Organizations have asked parliament to prevail over government to consider increasing the Budget of the Agricultural sector claiming that the sector employs most of the youth. Addressing a news conference at the National Theatre in Kampala the youth from Civil Society Organizations like Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG) said that […]
DAAD Scholarship Programme: DAAD Scholarship Programmes have benefited hundreds of African students since inception. The scholarships are given each year to postgraduate students wishing to study for a master‘s or PhD degree. DAAD does not sponsor undergraduate studies in Africa. The DAAD scholarships can support students who want to study in their country (In Country […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is pleased to announce the 2012 Norman E. Borlaug International Agricultural Science and Technology Fellowship Program (Borlaug Fellowship Program) for selected Feed the Future countries. These Fellowships are offered as part of the Feed the Future 21st Century Borlaug […]
Sales of the video about the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) leader, Joseph Kony are on increase in USA and European countries. Millions of people in Europe and USA are eager to see the atrocities the LRA fighters reportedly committed on innocent Ugandans in northern Uganda. Kony’s video sales in USA and European countries show that […]
IAMO is seeking candidates for four doctoral student positions within the multidisciplinary project “Economic and natural potentials of agricultural production and carbon trade-offs in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Russia [EPIKUR]“. EPIKUR aims to estimate agricultural production potentials by combing spatially explicit crop growth models, land use allocation models, and farm-level efficiency analyses. EPIKUR is strongly connected […]