Small business operators are set to benefit from a $1 million (about Rwf843 million) grant from the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth to support their growth. The grant will be rolled out over a period of three years in partnership with the African Entrepreneur Collective (AEC), locally known as Inkomoko, the organisation said in a

Setting up an oil refinery remains a big headache for the country’s oil and gas resources Optimism is the mood as the countdown to Uganda’s first oil continues and pressure mounts on the government to put in place critical infrastructure necessary for oil production in four years. “The government should have a new player for

Government has started an initiative to woo farmers who have unutilised land to allocate it to coffee growing in a move meant to achieve social economic transformation. Under the arrangement, the deputy chief coordinator of Operation Wealth Creation (OWC), Lt Gen Charles Angina, said the farmers will be required to form groups and register their

The assistant commissioner Petroleum Supply, Ministry of Energy, Mr John Friday, has said government has no control over fuel prices because Uganda is a liberalised economy. While addressing motorists from southwestern sub-region in Mbarara on Tuesday, Mr Friday said prices of goods and services in the country are determined by forces of demand and supply

The African continent has the potential to feed itself and even have surplus food to export to other parts of the world. But instead, the continent imports $35 billion worth of food and agricultural products every year, and if the current predictions hold, the import bill will rise to $110 billion annually by 2025. So

Against the clamour for more land to be handed to commercial farmers to feed Uganda’s exploding population, Bruce Robertson strikes a cautionary note. The Cambridge-educated Mr Robertson has been working in agriculture in Uganda since 1995 and warns that the rush to create big farms could backfire. “Uganda is a good country to invest in,”

The Minister of Agriculture Animal industry and Fisheries, Mr Vincent Bamulangaki Ssempijja, has said government is losing a lot of income in the fisheries sector due to continued use of bad or illegal fishing methods. “Currently Uganda earns about $150m (Shs542b) in exports annually but some time back when all factories were operational, we were

The government is working to revamp agriculture research centres to make them more effective in dealing with the country’s need to increase agricultural productivity. The move comes after farmers raised concerns about agricultural technocrats and researchers not giving them quality seeds in a timely way, which affected their planting seasons. According to the Permanent Secretary

The government of Germany has pledged to support Uganda to increase access to energy. This was revealed at the official launch of solar training equipment for experimental learning of the solar energy in the region. Up to 95 % of population use traditional solid fuels for heating, lighting and cooking, which has encouraged massive environmental

The period between plantation and harvest of vegetables varies depending on the species and variety. Different vegetables have different maturity times, with most vegetables you can start harvesting within 90 days after transplanting to the main garden and others can be harvested after 40 to 45 days. Read More

East African member countries have recorded a 26 per cent decline in export sales, a latest Mombasa auction report has shown. The report from the East African Tea Export Auctions held on April 10 and 11 shows that all the eight countries exported a total of 6.8 million (50-kilogramme) bags down from 9.1 million 50-kilogramme

After finding a temporary pesticide combination that works against the fall armyworm, Uganda’s scientists now seek a lasting solution to the pests that have invaded more than half of the country posing a significant threat to food security.