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Daily Monitor Tuesday May 25 2021 Market vendors at the office of the RDC in Soroti District on Monday. They asked the RDC to open an inquiry into unfair allocation of stalls in the newly constructed market. PHOTO/GEORGE MURON Summary Soroti main market, which sits on approximately 2.5 acre piece of land, was awarded to Techno 3 Ltd at Shs27b. Its construction started in 2018 and has a capacity to accommodate more than 2,000 vendors. However, the transition to the new facility hangs in balance due to the unresolved disagreements over the modes of sharing the lock up spaces. Advertisement More...

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Teso fruit growers frustrated as Soroti Fruit Factory fails to meet expectations The Soroti Fruit Factory in Arapai sub-county, Soroti District was conceived as a government investment promotion initiative, whose main objective is to support value addition to local oranges and mangoes. The federal government, through the Uganda Development Corporation, (UDC) owns 80 per cent shares, while the 20 per cent are owned by the Teso Tropical Fruits Cooperative Union. Ideally, Teso fruit farmers are meant to supply the big bulk of the fruit requirements. These were meant to be purchased primarily fro...

Daily Monitor Thursday February 25 2021 Summary Mr Douglas Kakyukyu Ndawula, the chief executive officer of Soroti Fruits Factory, says since the plant started commercial production on October 15, 2019, a total of 109 farmer groups and cooperatives have benefited from supplying their products to the factory. Advertisement   The fruit processing plant, a government investment promotion initiative, whose main objective is to support value addition to local oranges and mangoes, with a view of improving household incomes in the country, currently produces fruit concentrates and ready to drink ju...