Tag: food prices
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Many smallholder farmers food poor because they cannot afford to buy food
There is an urgent need for Uganda to move the debate away from the fallacy of: “Smallholder farmers in Uganda are subsistence farmers and that is why they are food poor; needing help to move from subsistence farming to modern farming.” Our smallholder farmers feed our nation and beyond and so it can’t be about…
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What will make Ugandan farmers object legislation passed without consulting them?
Just wondering, what will it take for farmers in Uganda to stop being docile and passive towards legislation and government actions that put their livelihoods and their smallholder farms at risk? Case in point, in Uganda, where, according to the most recent Uganda National Household Survey, 72 percent of households earn a living from agriculture,…
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What should have been discussed on Labour Day
I recall reading a piece in which a non-Ugandan shared with glee that one of the major reasons she liked living in Uganda was because she could go to the market with the equivalent of ten dollars or less and be able to buy fresh food items, including loads of fruit and vegetables, that could…
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Easter Saturday food prices
Eggs – half a tray (15 eggs) – Shs 4,600 (which is about Shs 300 per egg) Irish potatoes – 12 small ones – Shs 2,000 (which is about Shs 167 per potato) African egg plants – 26 pieces – Shs 800 (which is about Shs 31 per eggplant) Eggplants – 3 pieces – Shs…
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Jury is in on militarization of agricultural extension
While we celebrate the arrival of the rains for our first cropping season 2015, we are also apprehensive of a major change in our agricultural system – the allocation to the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) the role of logistical distribution of planting material; a role which has been removed from trained agricultural extension workers.…
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