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Miura, Japan | AFP | Friday It’s cheap, recycled, and has centuries of tradition: “shimogoe” or “fertiliser from a person’s bottom” is finding new favour in Japan as Ukraine’s …

By  Jovita Mirembe In a bid to make quick money, Ugandan farmers have increasingly  resorted  to  using herbicides for drying maize and beans after …

By Samuel Nkuba  The blocks and units palm farmer leaders in Kalangala district have been divided over sh50b returned by President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni …

By Joshua Kato         The Desert Locust Control Organisation for Eastern Africa (DLCO-EA) has donated 40 armyworm traps to support the Crop Protection Department of …

By Joshua Kato    Although the general funding to agriculture was increased from sh1.4trillion to sh2.2trillion, small holder farmers were left out-according to the East …

By Moses Mulondo Coffee exports in May were 453,169 bags of 60kg each and fetched the country a total of $73.26m (Sh271b), according to …

The Hague, Netherlands | AFP | Thursday Dutch police arrested seven people and two officers were injured on Thursday as angry farmers renewed their protest campaign against the government’s …

Rec, Albania | AFP | Thursday The northern Albanian village of Rec is locked in a life or death battle with a tiny wasp.  Beautiful but impoverished, its villagers …

By HERBERT MUSOKE  Fish farmers have a reason to smile after De Heus Animal Nutrition established a factory in Uganda to manufacture feeds.  During …

By John Masaba and Stella Nanozi Government has urged farmers under the Parish Development Model (PDM) to add vanilla to the list of enterprises …