KABAROLE: Insecure Land Tenure Hinders Climate Adaptation and Modern Agriculture
Lucky Patrick Insecure land tenure systems in Kabarole district may hinder communities from adopting climate adaptation strategies and modern agricultural practices such as irrigation. This issue was realized earlier this week during a stakeholders’ meeting on land governance held at the Kabarole district headquarters in Kitumba on Thursday. Protecting Land Rights Resty Balinda, […]
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Fort Portal Diocese: Bishop’s House Resorts to Zero Grazing to Boost Household Income
Clare In a move to embrace modernized agriculture and increase household income in Fort Portal Diocese, the Director of the National Agriculture Research Organization (NARO) Rwebitaba zonal Agricultural Research Institute, Dr. Titus Alicai, has officially handed over a complete zero grazing dairy unit to the Bishop’s House in Kijanju ward, Fort Portal City. […]
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Fort Portal Farmers Tipped on Utilizing Agroecology to Address Climate Change
Clare Nayebare Farmers in Fort Portal and the Rwenzori region have been called upon to embrace Agroecology as one way of addressing the current global threat of climate change and global warming. The call, has been made by Paul Kusiima, an Agroecologist at Food-Feed- Forest (Triple F) Agroecology demonstration center, based in Kigarama […]
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Farmers Advised to Think Twice Before Investing Loans in Certain Crops
Kamwenge district local government in conjunction with National Alliance of Agricultural Co-operatives in uganda ltd (NAAC), has launched the district farmers advocacy platform. The launching was held at Kamwenge district headquarters last week on Friday Feb 14, 2023. Platform to aim at Farmers’ dialogue with District officials Ambrose Asingizibwe, the official team […]
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Kamwenge Deanery Receives Tractor, Set to Embrace Mechanized Agriculture For Better Income
As Uganda fronts Agriculture for main source of Income, Christians in Kamwenge Deanery, Fort Portal diocese, are expected to transform from garden to mouth (subsistence agriculture) to garden to market( Commercial Farming) agricultural status. Kamwenge gets Tractor Yesterday, March 18, 2023, the ordinary of Fort Portal diocese, Rt.Rev.Dr.Robert Muhiirwa Akiiki, handed over a […]
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KABAROLE: District Council Halted Over Industrial Park Demonstration by Residents
LUCKY Patrick Residents in Fort Portal City and Kabarole district led by activist David Musinguzi, have yesterday morning stormed Kabarole district council, demonstrating the delay of Kabarole district Agro-Industrial Park which prompted speaker Timothy Ruhweza to adjourn for over 30 minutes. Activist Musinguzi, is questioning the authorities to explain why industrial parks of […]
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Kabarole Fish Farmers Accuse Gov’t of Supplying Poor Quality Fingerlings
By Sylvia &Joseph Communities surrounding the crater lakes in Kabarole district, have decried poor-quality fingerlings that were distributed by the government through Operation Wealth Creation – OWC and the NAADs secretariat under the AGRI-LED implementation program phase 1. Kabarole receives 30 cages In October 2021, the government of Uganda distributed […]
Continue ReadingNtoroko: UPDF Accused Of Harassment & Torture On Fishermen
Sylvia K Residents of Kanara and Butungama sub-counties in Ntoroko district, have accused the UPDF Fisheries Protection Unit of harassment and torture of their colleagues on Lake Albert. Residents who are largely fishermen, claim that whereas the majority of them are flood victims whose only source of livelihood has been fishing, they can longer […]
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