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Item 15,000 youth to benefit from agri-business fund(Daily Monitor, 2017-08-18) Kasemire, ChristineThe youth in Uganda are set to receive $19m (Shs68.4b) for agri-business development in the East African Youth Inclusion Program (EAYIP).Item 2,000 delegates expected at African coffee conference(New Vision, 2018-02-12) Manishimwe WilsonAccording to Emmanuel Lyamulemye, the head of Uganda coffee development Authority, the delegates include coffee roasters, traders, producers and professionals.Item 2018 Best famers competiton launched(New Vision, 2018-01-26) Mutegeki GeoffreyThe 2018 edition of the Harvest Money's Best farmers Competition has been laaunched with a call to Ugandans to embrace the farming sector.Item 280,000 Coffee farmers in Busoga decry lack of market(Daily monitor, 2018-01) Philp WafulaThe farmers say the company which took over their union is more interested in maize and sorghum and not coffee.Item 300 pigs die of swine fever in Masaka, quarantine imposed(daily monitor, 2017-01-19) Mugenyi, Brian; Align, IssaAction. veterinary experts have been sent to the affected areas to contain outbreak.Item 9 years later, farmers still wait for Walking tractors(Daily Monitor, 2017-07-19) Mufumba, IsaacOn June 12, 2008, Dr Ezra Suruma, then minister for Finance, Planning and Economic Development, announced in his Budget speech for 2008/2009 that the country was to import walking tractors for distribution to farmers ahead of the next planting season.Item Add value to those Worms, maggots(Daily Monitor, 2018-03-31) Desire MbabaaliHigh cost of feeds is among the challenges farmers face today. when it comes to poultry farming, the prices of poultry feeds keep fluctuating causing poultry farmers uncertitnity and obviously, higher costs of productions.Item Agribusiness must consider national interest(Saturday Monitor, 2017-07-15) Farmers, WeeklyFormer south African finance minister Pravin Gordhan has suggested that delegates attending the Farmer's Weekly Agribusiness Africa Conference in Johannesburg initiate an agricultural chapter of the CEO InitiativeItem Agribusiness transforming Northern Uganda(saturday monitor, 2017-06-24) Namuwoza, CharltonThere is sufficient evidence to suggest that agribusiness development can enable an agrarian economy realise economic transformation since it permits access to quality inputs for production and productivity, facilitates value addition or processing delivers employment opportunities, generates demand for farmers produce and offers income to small holder farmers.Item Agricultural education through music is a welcome strategy(Daily Monitor, 2017-11-27) Serumaga DavidI attended a press conference at Uganda media centre where operation wealth creation (OWC) officials announced Kadongo Kamu Music Grand Finale Competitions, which are scheduled to take place on December 16 at Kololo independence grounds.Item Agricultural production(New Vision, 2018-01-26) Kato JoshuaCurrently, there are over 18 sugar factories, with an installed capacity of over 440,000 million tonnes per yearItem Agriculture is more than just farming(New Vision, 2018-01-19) Busharizi, PaulThe second annual Harvest Money Expo, held this weekend, was a great success. Judging by the number of people who trooped to Namboole for the event.Item Agriculture ministry officials faulted over NAADS mandate(New Vision, 2018-02-16) Agaba VivianMPs have put to task officials from the Ministry of Agriculture to explain why they took over functions of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) without following the correct procedure.Item Agriculture ministry sponsors Harvest Money Expo(New Vision, 2018-02-01) Mutegeki Geoffrey and Nandudu ProssyThe Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), through the vegetable Oil Development Project, is the latest entity to sponsor and endorse the 2018 Harvest Money Expo. The fair set for Febraury 16 to 18, will be held at Nelson Mandela National Stadium, Namboole on the outskirts of Kampala city. It will be held under the theme: "From your farm to the market"Item Agriculture recruits field extension workers(saturday monitor, 2017-09-02) Mugenyi, BrianIn 2014, Cabinet made some decisions for the benefit of the agricultural sector. one was that agriculture as a ministry should streamline extension service and eliminate parallel institution arrangements for extension service delivery.Item Agriculture staff to get boda bodas(Daily Monitor, 2018-04-09) Bill OketchIn a bid to improve service delivery, the government in partnership with the international fund for Agricultural Development will procure about 600 motocycles and 80 cars for agricultural extention staff countrywide.Item Agrovet to answer all farm queries(New Vision, 2018-02-16) Nandudu ProssyThe quality of livestock feeds depends on many factors including transportation, storage, application and usage. Compromising any of the above while handling animal feeds or additives will affect quality of the final product.Item Ankole leaders directed to save environment(New Vision, 2017-08-28) Ssengendo, AbdulkarimThe director of manifesto implementation unit in the office of the president, Willis Bashasha, has directed leaders in the Ankole sub-region to start implementing programmes that will save River Rwizi and other natural resourcesItem Armyworm ravages Zombo(New Vision, 2017-06-19) Okethwengu, BenedictMaize farmers in Zombo have suffered losses as a result of armyworms, which have invaded their maize plantations. The situation has been worsened by the drought. The farmers fear they will struggle to contain the threat posed by the brown caterpillars that have been known to be destructive predators.Item Assailants attack livestock(New Vision, 2018-02-07) Buyondo Davis and Sseruwu JohnPolice in Kalungu district are looking into a new wave of crime in which assailants attack people's livestock.