Kenya and the United States are set to begin talks on contentious clauses in a proposed bilateral trade deal amid fears the agreement could flood the market with cheap agricultural imports from America. The delayed third in-person round of talks will focus on agriculture, good regulatory practices and workers’ rights and protections, according to a…
The Monday cabinet meeting approved a policy proposition that requires farmers to pay for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) vaccines while government will incur the cost of vaccine administration, transportation and storage, the agriculture minister has revealed. Read More…
The price of cocoa in Bundibugyo District has risen from between shs.4,000 and shs.8,000 a kilo to shs.15,000, which has excited farmers. The farmers say they are now reaping substantial profits. They, however, raised concern about the low yields they are experiencing. Read More…
Fromyfarm app is a feature rich, Innovative and disruptive smartphone-only based technology to bring smallholder farmers into the digital world of e-commerce. The strategy of Fromyfarm app is to change the way smallholder farmers and buyers currently trade to the benefit of smallholder farmers, creating a vastly more level playing field for all participants. Read…
Farmers in Ibanda are laughing all the way to the bank following coffee price gains over the past few months. Presently, Robusta coffee trades at a record high of sh9,200 per kilogram in Ibanda town, but the beans go for sh8,900 a kilo in Kashangura in Kagongo division, Ibanda municipality. Read More…
The farmers made the appeal on Wednesday during a World Bank- MAAIF mission tour of beneficiaries of the project, implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) in Eastern districts of Bugweri, Kaliro, Mbale and Kumi, that ended on Thursday. Under the E-Voucher System, farmers contributed a certain percentage towards the purchase…
After the hugely disappointing rates recorded last vanilla harvest season, farmers are optimistic that the prices will recover this season. Farmers who invested a lot last season might have seen very little returns because the cost of production for the crop is too high. The drop in the vanilla prices over the past four seasons…
Pearl Capital Partners, a private equity firm operating in Uganda, recently invested in snack food manufacturer Newman Foods via its Yield Uganda Investment Fund. This is the fund’s 14th investment in the Ugandan agribusiness and food sector. Jeanette Clark speaks to Wanjohi Ndagu, co-managing partner at Pearl Capital Partners, about the motivation for the investment, the potential he sees in the snacks industry and opportunities to export food products to the wider East African region.