The government has been requested to officially include cocoa in the Uganda coffee development authority (UCDA) naming, in order to improve the quality and effectively promote cocoa both on the local and international markets. The plea was made during the cocoa workshop that took place in Kampala, it was attended by the member of the European Union and officials from UCDA.
Business came to a standstill as the vendors protested over the overpriced stall in the Wakiso market. Traders demonstrated while carrying charts deriding leaders whom they accused of making them bankrupt.
Butcheries in Kasese municipality have since been closed for a whole day following a seat down strike of the butcher men who decided not slaughter animals for the alleged increment of taxes on the animals slaughtered at the Kasese municipality abattoir.
Professor Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutibile who has been the Governor of the Central Bank of Uganda since January 2001 was tasked to account for the cooperative bank closure.
Over two thousand applications of farmers have been cancelled in Kasese.
Over two thousand applications of farmers who had applied to benefit on phase two of Mubuku irrigation scheme have been cancelled by the ministry of agriculture due to a lot of irregularities cited in the process.
Japan has pledged to help Africa double its rice production by the year 2030 at a conference being attended by African leaders in the Japanese city of Yokohama.
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