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Daily Monitor Monday May 03 2021 Bulafa Health Centre II in Namutumba District is being upgraded to a Shs1.7b health centre III. PHOTO/RONALD SEEBE Summary Upgrading from a health centre II to III not only comes with an increase in service delivery, but also the amount of drug stock out increases from the current Shs1.2m they receive bi-monthly to Shs4.4m.   Advertisement Residents of Namutumba Sub-county in Namutumba District will soon be relieved of trekking long distances after construction of a Shs1.7b health centre III in Bulafa Village, Kigalama Parish started last week. The developmen...

For years, the sugar industry has been booming until last year when a trade war with Kenya led to the sugar exports earnings deteriorating from Shs42.3b to 27.3b

Daily Monitor Saturday April 10 2021 The intervention has helped in eroding several challenges such as pest eradication. This has led to improved harvests which has increased earnings for the farmers. Summary Advertisement Reducing poverty and food insecurity in Uganda requires raising productivity in agriculture. Systematic use of fertiliser and hybrid seed is a pathway to increased productivity, but adoption of these technologies remains low.  There are continuing problems with pests, and their efforts to protect farmers from the harm they may cause. Experts explain that agro-input dealers...

Daily Monitor Tuesday March 02 2021 Advertisement At least 1,400 women in Bugiri District are now able to fend for themselves through a cage fish farming project funded by United Nations (UN) women agency. The Shs2.6b project, which started in 2019, is based on research by the UN Women agency on gender gaps in agriculture production, which found Bugiri District wanting.  It is set to end on December 31 and is co-funded by Standard Bank South Africa, and the Swedish government, in partnership with Increasing Women Economic Empowerment (IWEE). Mr Maxime Houinato, the UN Women country represent...

The stark fact is that the National Resistance Movement regime headed by President Yoweri Museveni uses the military as its pillar of strength whenever politically pressed: whether it’s disorder on the floor of parliament, such as during the debate to remove the presidential age limit, or civil action on the street, the army jumps into the fray. In this scheme of things, martial law seems to have taken centre stage and the military court is increasingly drawn upon to settle political disputes by framing charges which, to the less discerning eye, appear to plausibly fall within the jurisdict...