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The Deputy Speaker of Parliament Thomas Tayebwa has directed the Minister of Agriculture, Animal Industry, and Fisheries to explain the progress made in containing foot-and-mouth disease (FMD). The deputy speaker said a section of farmers across the country have raised concerns about the quarantine being enforced by the ministry. The Ministry of Agriculture recently imposed a quarantine on 32 districts ...

Farmers are demanding for special financial facility to boost agriculture sector. Speaking at this years joint  agricultural sector annual review meeting under the theme: Sustainable Agro industrialization for wealth creation in Kampala, they argued that financial credit given to farmers by commercial banks is expensive and the terms are unfriendly to farmers. “There is still a limit in financing agricultural ...