Richard Ssekibuule looks at the success of kudu, a mobile auction market that links farmers to traders, with pride.

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FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva met with Ugandan Vice-President Edward Sekandi to discuss ways to ensure food security for all Ugandans and reduce poverty by supporting rural smallholders in the country's agriculture sector.

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Fresh Cuts Uganda has already sent a consignment of products to Rwanda to test the market, according to a report on All Africa.

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Poultry producers in Uganda are losing billions of shillings as Brazilian poultry imports flood the market, according to investigations.

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Uganda is losing billions of shillings in imports of chicken from Brazil according to investigations.

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The Uganda Meat Packers Cooperative Union wants government to pay more attention to their plight, especially their funding challenges and the lack of veterinary drugs.

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Uganda has the highest rate of retail business growth in East Africa. Statistics recently provided by Mr Ali Mufuluki, the W-Stores chairman and managing director, indicate that Uganda’s retail business space has in the last five years been growing at a rate of 20 per cent compared to Tanzania’s 15 per cent, and Kenya’s less than 15 per cent.

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The Uganda Modern Halal Abattoir is being set up at Nakirebe, 17km along the Kampala-Masaka road, by Iran-registered Halal Meat Co Ltd, supported by the Uganda Investment Authority. It is a joint venture of the governments of Uganda and Iran.

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KICKS OF ANKOLE COW BY MUKUNDANE B ALBERT

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AllAfrica.com reports that the quarantine was pronounced following an outbreak of the disease in Kikokiro Village in Kasengenge Parish.

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According to AllAfrica.com, although the veterinary department placed a quarantine on pigs, the animals killed by swine fever has risen from 60 to 120, in just two weeks.

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Uganda: Residents ignore warnings concerning consumption of pork from pigs killed by ASF

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Rice has become Uganda’s biggest income earner topping traditional food crops, according to a survey released by ministry of Agriculture.

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Joseph Otim, a resident of Lamogi is counting his losses after 10 of his pigs succumbed to the disease in the past one month, saying he was keeping them to help him pay his son's school fees. "I saw my pigs die of the disease but I could not do much to help the situation. I am now left with a few of them which I am also not sure of their survival," he said.

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African Swine Fever (ASF) has been rife in Uganda, 600 pigs have been affected and killed by it since April. The Gulu District and surrounding areas are said to be where ASF struck.

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The meat processing industry in Uganda is being hit by a fall in livestock numbers and in particular cattle. The decline in numbers has produced a shortage of beef on the local markets, according to a report on New Vision.

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According to Daily Monitor, statistics from the veterinary department indicate that the fever kills about 40 pigs in the district on average every week, putting the livelihood of most farmers including those under the Naads programme at risk.

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The launch took place at the offices of the Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI) in Nakawa Division, Kampala district.

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Uganda could soon experience meat shortages if the Government does not regulate trade cattle.

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Beef prices at butcheries in and around Kampala City in Uganda have risen from sh6,000 per kilo to between sBeef prices at butcheries in and around Kampala City in Uganda have risen from sh6,000 per kilo to between sh7,000 and sh10,000. h7,000 and sh10,000.

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The scarcity of poultry feeds including maize bran, rice bran, cotton seed cake and wheat bran has hit the Ugandan poultry industry hard, even forcing some farmers out of business.

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The agribusiness giant earned a record $4.2 billion in fiscal 2011, a whopping 63 percent jump from the previous year, when profits from its fertilizer company spinoff Mosaic are included.

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In the fight to improve global health, alleviate hunger, raise living standards and empower women in the developing world, chickens have an important role to play.

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Sheep rearing is one venture that farmers in Uganda have continued to ignore despite the low investment requirement that can be turned into high profits.

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In the fight to improve global health, alleviate hunger, raise living standards and empower women in the developing world, chickens have an important role to play.

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In the fight to improve global health, alleviate hunger, raise living standards and empower women in the developing world, chickens have an important role to play.

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According to the district Naads Coordinator, Joseph Komakech, the viral disease which started in July last year has killed over 80 pigs in the municipality alone. Mr Komakech said they have been prompted to stop farmers from procuring pigs until the outbreak is contained.

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Walking down one of Kampala's busy suburbs, a reporter with East African Business Week could not help but notice with alarm that a lady on the sidewalk was selling a boiled egg to a taxi tout at 500 shillings (UGS; US$0.21).

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The National Drug Authority (NDA) yesterday displayed four types of veterinary drugs and warned the public to desist from using them to treat their poultry, saying the chicken would be dangerous to human life when eaten.

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Ugandan traders in Southern Sudan dealing in poultry have been cautioned to be more vigilant of any signs of avian influenza (bird flu).

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Recently, President Yoweri Museveni has singled out poultry and recommended it to the National Agriculture Advisory Services as a key intervention as government promotes the Prosperity for All Programme, according to New Vision.

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Market analysts are concerned that the exports of maize to Kenya, southern Sudan and Tanzania are causing shortages of the grain for chicken feed. According to a report on New Vision the Poultry Association of Uganda says the cost of production has risen by 60 per cent in the last two months.

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The Ugandan Government has partnered with a local firm, Brentec Vaccines International, to start manufacturing vaccines for Newcastle diesease. Brian Bigirwa, Brentec’s quality assurance manager, said the vaccine, dubbed Kuku Vac, does not require refrigeration during transportation and can be stored at room temperature for about two to three weeks without losing potency.

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"There is no vaccine or medicine for African Swine Fever. The only control is to restrict movement in the affected areas," said Dr Tonny Aliro, the district veterinary officer.

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By 2002, Godfrey Walusimbi already had 14 years experience in commercial poultry while Jimmy Kiwanuka had five years of electrical engineering and motor mechanics, according to All Africa.

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Ugandan farmers have been grappling with low prices of commodities like maize for some time now. The prices for maize have dropped in some places to as low as Shs100 (app. € 0.032) a kilo which is more of an insult to the labour and inputs that farmers invest in these ventures.

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Dr NATHAN TWINAMASIKO is stepping down as executive director of the Dairy Development Authority after 10 years at the helm. MOSES TALEMWA spoke to him about his time at the Authority and the situation in the dairy industry

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Mr William Olaho-Mukani, Head of the Ministry of Agriculture said that wild buffalo were susceptible to the disease, in Queen Elizabeth National Park. This is the first case of anthrax in Uganda since 2005. Anthrax outbreaks within Queen Elizabeth National Park normally occur during the dry season when pastures are scarce.

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Mr William Olaho-Mukani, Head of the Ministry of Agriculture said that wild buffalo were susceptible to the disease, in Queen Elizabeth National Park. This is the first case of anthrax in Uganda since 2005. Anthrax outbreaks within Queen Elizabeth National Park normally occur during the dry season when pastures are scarce.

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After the Lord's Resistance Army insurgency ended two years ago, local authorities advised Hellen Apaku to plant maize on her one-acre land, saying she would get rich. "I have planted maize for the third time since the end of the war," she says, holding a dry maize cob from the previous harvest. After selling part of the December 2009 to February 2010 harvest, at around sh150 per kilo, Apaku bought a new dress and took her children to a school. She also stored some maize, but the price bothers her. In Apac, a maize cob goes for less than sh30.

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Before 1998, there were no private seed companies operating in Uganda, even though more than three-quarters of Ugandans depend on farming. But currently, there are 23 private seed companies in Uganda that sell between 10,000 to 12,000 metric tonnes of staple crop seeds to farmers each year.

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Youth and women farmers in the five divisions of Kampala will receive 40,000 broiler chicks this financial year, Dr Aggrey Kyobuguzi, the head of the programme has said. According to The New Vision, Dr Kyobuguzi, an officer at the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) secretariat, said beneficiaries would also be given feeds, vaccines and advisory services.

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It is encouraging that the Government is this financial year putting emphasis on the policy of Kilimo Kwanza (Kiswahili words which literally mean Agriculture First). This is contrary to past years when the sector was given the back seat. This was despite pronouncements of various policies, including Kilimo cha kufa na kupona (Agriculture is life and death), Kilimo ni uti wa mgongo (Agriculture is the country’s backbone) and operations to get rid of people from urban to rural areas.

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The Korean republic is to establish an agricultural training institution in Uganda to equip farmers with better skills, an official has said. "The institution will focus on mindset change of communities as a necessary element in transformation of the country's agricultural sector," Hope Mwesigye, the agriculture minister informed the New Vision.

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According to The New Vision, people dealing in pork, some employing over eight workers, have been rendered jobless after the district veterinary office put a quarantine on transportation of pigs and closed all pork joints on Wednesday. African swine fever is a viral disease which is spread from one infected animal to another through body fluids or eating meat of the animal killed by the fever. It can kill an animal three to four days after infection.

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According to the Washington based Population Reference Bureau 2009 Data Sheet, Uganda has a total fertility rate of 6.7, a natural increase rate of 3.4, and a population of 30.7 million. Our projected population will be 51.8 million by 2025 and 96.4 million by 2050.

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A farming ban imposed on Rwandan refugees in southwestern Uganda is raising concerns for their food security, while proposed cash transfers could boost both food prices and theft, warn aid workers and local officials, who are urging the government to rescind the directive.

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A farming ban imposed on Rwandan refugees in southwestern Uganda is raising concerns for their food security, while proposed cash transfers could boost both food prices and theft, warn aid workers and local officials, who are urging the government to rescind the directive.

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Priests have very tight schedules ranging from performing masses, hearing confessions, advising the believers, participating in baptisms to praying for themselves and others. Despite this, Father Dominic Mubi, the parish priest of Magale in Manafwa district, has decided to add farming to the list of his activities in the parish. The priest, who was transferred to Manafwa district in 2007, says he decided to venture into farming to teach his 'flock' modern ways of practicing agriculture. "I am not doing this as a business, I just want to demonstrate to the farmers in this area how to practice modern farming on a small piece of land," he explained.

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Ugachick Poultry Breeders in Uganda has invested $1.2m in a drive to increase its fish feed production capacity

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In the past, before Uganda’s economy went to the dogs as a result of war and bad governance, there were factories in different parts of the country, according to the comparative advantages that those areas enjoyed

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Chilli coming from Uganda will soon be banned from the European Union (EU), the amount of pesticide residues is far beyond the acceptable level

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In a bid to educate the public about the risks of consuming pork, the Epilepsy Support Association, Uganda, an umbrella organisation for people living with epilepsy has gone into a partnership with the Veterinary

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The Agriculture Sector Programme Support (ASPS) II will stop its operations at the end of this year to pave way for the new programme, Daily Monitor has learnt. According to a statement from ASPS, Uganda, its operations will be wrapped up in a new programme, U-Growth, which is expected to be launched early next year. “The ASPS II started implementation in mid 2004 and will conclude end of 2009,” the statement reads in part.

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A local initiative has been set up to collect banana peel and dry it to make a nutritious feed ingredient for poultry and pigs. Over 1,500 tonnes of garbage are generated in Kampala daily that Kampala City Council is overwhelmed by the waste output due to its lack of capacity to collect and dump it at its landfill, according to Daily Monitor of Uganda. Three

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It’s a good job the Ugandan police were not in Devon or Cornwall 40 years ago, as all the farmers would be in prison.

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Fish farmers in Kyanamira sub-county Kabale district are to receive fish fry from the sub-county hatcheries. The hatcheries were recently restocked with parent fish that can produce over 30,000 fish fry every three months. This was revealed

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The fact that Uganda and Tanzania are two of the most lush countries in Africa gives the opportunity to make them world leaders in the cattle business.

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High Court has given the government 15 days to file its defence in a case where a farmer from Nakaseke district accuses the army of carrying out a training exercise on his farm without his consent causing him losses.

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Residents in Kisenyi, a Fort Portal suburb, were stunned when locals from Bundibugyo district stormed Kisenyi and arrested five people, accusing them of stealing a cow.

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