Jinja: The National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) has been named the Best Government Institution at the just concluded 32nd National Agricultural Show in Jinja. The accolade was announced by the Uganda National Farmers Federation (UNFFE) during the closing ceremony of the annual show, which attracted thousands of exhibitors and visitors from across Uganda and the […]
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Maracha: For decades, the West Nile region was synonymous with tobacco cultivation, alongside traditional staples such as cassava and millet. Many homesteads had the iconic burnt-brick tobacco-drying barns that usually stood out in each compound for their narrow but towering nature. Today, those barns are disappearing as tobacco growing declines sharply. In their place, rice […]
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The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development through the Expanding Social Programme has in a new nationwide arrangement commenced issuance of monthly grants to older persons above 80 years. The Programme, started in 2010 in 15 district on a pilot basis,had to-date covered only 64 districts. However, while speaking at this year’s International Women’s […]
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The Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development, Hon. Hajjat Janat Mukwaya has today monitored Government-funded women and youth projects in Ntungamo district as part of her ongoing monitoring exercise in the Western region. Today morning she visited a goat rearing project by Kyabashenyi Bacara Tukore women group funded under the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme […]
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Gender minister Hajjat Janat B. Mukwaya says the fruits of the Uganda Women’s Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP), channeled through the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development are now very evident, with more groups making big strides in fighting poverty among women in Uganda. Minister Mukwaya alongside the Permanent Secretary Pius Bigirimana and the Programme line […]
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