By Samuel Wamuttu on January 12, 2020
AggreyBagiire, desert locusts, Eriteria, Ethiopia, FAO, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, uganda ministry of agriculture
Agriculture, Agriculture, Agriculture, Latest Uganda News
Uganda’s ministry of agriculture has announced that it is on high alert over an eminent threat of desert locusts that have invaded the East African Region especially the neighboring Kenya. The revelation was made on Friday by Aggrey Bagiire, the State Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries during a press briefing at the Ugandan […]
By Isaac Senabulya on August 17, 2016
Alhaji Momodou Jallow, and the need to strengthen agricultural extension and advisory services countrywide., Deparrtment for International Development (DFID), Development partners who support the Agricultural sector in Uganda are unhappy with the way government pampers companies supplying fake seeds to farmers, especially those with big chunks of land, European Union (EU), FAO, French Embassy and Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) among others expressed their disappointment while meeting with the minister of Agriculture, government to put in place laws that punish those companies which supply fake seeds to farmers, government to start distributing free farm inputs to farmers, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), ministry of agriculture to bring private sector on board, Netherlands Cooperation, the strategies for strengthening certification and regulation of the agricultural inputs market (fake seeds), Uganda Country representative, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, United Sates Agency for International Development (USAID), Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja at FAO offices in Kampala, ways on how to finalize the formulation and approval of the irrigation policy, World Bank, World Food Programme (WFP)
Agriculture, Latest Uganda News
Development partners who support the Agricultural sector in Uganda are unhappy with the way government pampers companies supplying fake seeds to farmers. Representatives from International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), United Sates Agency for International Development (USAID), Netherlands Cooperation, World Bank, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), European Union (EU), Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), Deparrtment […]
By Gerald Businge on June 28, 2011
FAO, Food and Agriculture Organisation, rinderpest, UN
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The United Nations today declared that the world has completely eradicated a cattle disease that has killed millions of bovines for millennia. It is the first animal disease to be officially declared eradicated – and only the second disease ever, after smallpox. A resolution approved by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) at its […]
