The start of the second phase of the Rural Development Programme (PDR) and Combat of Poverty will be discussed Friday at a conference with the deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Filomena Delgado.

In recent years, value addition to matooke, to make it more valuable and exportable has been carried out and will soon spread throughout all matooke-growing areas of Uganda.

LAKE Kyoga may soon have no fish due to indiscriminate fishing and failure by the districts bordering it to commit funds to sustain the lake, according to a management body.

OFFICIALS of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) who are implicated in the loss of funds meant for educating farmers and funding farmer projects in Tororo district will be interdicted.

TWENTY suspected cattle thieves have been rounded up in a countrywide swoop in which 70 head of cattle and 12 goats were recovered, reports Herbert Ssempogo.

DEAR readers, as the discussion, mostly misinformation, on the "9000" square miles of Buganda (akenda) continues, it would be useful if I informed the Movement Caucus about the cattle-keepers' traditional concept of "landholding".

In an effort to popularise Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in rural areas, the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) through the Rural Communications Development Fund (RCDF) has decided to provide translated versions of each District Web Portal across the country, after

SCIENTISTS have developed a new high- yielding and disease resistant soybean variety for farmers.

Kenyans are obsessed with land. We decry the shortage of land. Yet we waste what little we do have. Large swathes are held captive and need to be set free.

FARMERS in Mukono have asked the Government to revise the way it distributes NAADS funds.

Southern African veterinary experts are among 60 other specialists in that field including representatives from the African Union and South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe and United Kingdom governments who began meeting in Pretoria, South Africa yesterday to exchange notes on

The first consignment of 500 processed chicken and 4,000 chicks imported from Uganda have been delivered to agents in the country.

A three-day meeting on food security is expected to unveil a five-year strategy to scale up food security programmes in 15 African countries, including Ethiopia.

Government says it will soon reticulate water to the cattle market located at Lokpanta in Umunneochi Local Government Council, on the the Enugu-Port Harcourt Express road to improve the living standard of the Hausa cattle traders and other traders in

The Eastern Cape Department of Agriculture has urged residents to take the vaccination of dogs against rabies seriously.

Ten people have already died of hunger in Nabwai parish in Moroto district and the famine is widespread in other areas in the Karamoja sub-region. The famine afflicting Karamoja and claiming human lives has its roots largely in last year's

Although more than 75 percent of Uganda's workforce is engaged in agriculture, low yields leading to low income among farmers and malnutrition in children remain a challenge.

Parliament on Friday adopted a motion tabled by Boteti North Member of Parliament (MP) Slumber Tsogwane requesting government to consider reviewing the Remote Area Development Programme (RADP) to enhance the RADP arable agricultural activities, which currently compare unfavourably with livestock

THE price of milk is not expected to increase when an online trading platform goes live next month.

Kaburu Ikunyua has been practising apiculture since 1975, but unlike other beekeepers in developed countries, he is struggling to keep some 15 beehives.