Uganda’s agricultural sector once again took centre stage as the dfcu Bank–Vision Group Best Farmers Awards 2025 recognised outstanding farmers for innovation, resilience, and excellence across the value chain. This year’s event also marked 11 years of partnership between dfcu Bank and Vision Group, reinforcing a shared commitment to growing Uganda’s agribusiness potential. Held at the Vision Group Head Office in Kampala, the ceremony brought together farmers, policymakers, private-sector leaders, and development partners, highlighting agriculture’s central role in the economy and future development. The initiative continues to spotlight farming not only as a livelihood, but as a profitable business that…
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dfcu Bank, in partnership with Vision Group, the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, and Koudijs BV, has officially flagged off the winners of the…
By Aggie Konde & George Lugalambi On 15 August in Kampala, more than 20 editors and media leaders from various Ugandan news organisations participated in a listening session to share…
By David Birungi Agriculture continues to be a key contributor to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of various economies across the world. According to the 2020/2021 financial year, agriculture accounted for about 23.7% of Uganda’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and 31% of export earnings. Drawing an example from Coffee farming which is Uganda’s top-earning export crop, farm-gate prices for Robusta Kiboko according to Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) averaged UGX 1,800 per kilo in 2010, which price stands at UGX 3,100 per kilo as per the UCDA January 2022 monthly report, which translates into various economic benefits including; employment and…
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PostBank, a financial institution committed to empowering lives and transforming livelihoods, yesterday launched the second phase of its Agricultural Forums in Soroti district. The aim is to equip farmers with knowledge and skills to jumpstart their agribusinesses. 85% of the farming community in Uganda are smallholder farmers according to the 2021 BMC report on Agriculture and Food Security. However, these farming communities have inadequate access to financial capacities to purchase and use the right inputs which limits productivity and production, have limited access to the market, and lack access to extension services. This year, PostBank is set to conduct forums…
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Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries Minister Frank Tumwebaze, has proposed the introduction of Hass avocado in Busoga to complement sugarcane growing. Hass avocado, a commercially popular and nutritious fruit is part of the 19 crops that the ministry is promoting under the Agricultural Value Chain Development Strategy. The other crops include cashew nuts, banana, cassava, beans, fish, cocoa, cotton and coffee among others. Tumwebaze and the Minister of State for Fisheries, Hellen Adoa, were on Wednesday, 19 January 2022 appearing before the Committee on Agriculture, to defend their National Budget Framework Paper for the Financial Year 2022/23. The sector has…
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Farmers in Kalangala are eating big with a kilogramme of fresh fruit bunches of oil palm reaching an all-time high of UGX1,130. The price of oil palm fresh fruit bunches has significantly increased from Shs465 in September 2019, an increment of 143%. This price is also an increment on the November price of UGX1,103. Even though November is off season, farmers collectively sold more than 4.4 million kilos of Fresh Fruit Bunches. Overall, there are 2,063 oil palm smallholder farmers in the district. Of these, more than 1,400 are women. David Balironda Mukasa, the Kalanga Oil Palm Growers Trust (KOPGT)…
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By Jimmy Ocen Apart from manufacturing, there’s no faction in the services sector that contributes a larger share of gross domestic product than agriculture. Data from Bank of Uganda (BoU) indicates that the services sector contributes 41.5% of gross domestic product, with manufacturing contributing 27.4% which is just slightly above 23.7% for agriculture. According to an annual agriculture survey conducted by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBoS), the agricultural sector is the largest employer in Uganda and remains essential to secure the livelihoods of Ugandans. Agriculture pays about 70% of the Ugandan population with the remaining 25% and 5% split…
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Uganda’s agriculture sector, both agro-industry and primary agriculture as well as manufacturing have emerged as the leaders in performance of the products offered by the Uganda Development Bank (UDB) according to a statement issued recently. The Bank released a mid-year update covering the period July-2020-July 2021. In total UDB approved loans worth UGX 649Billion in the reporting period. A total of UGX 362 Billion was disbursed according to the Bank. “The reporting period significantly covers economic activity during the on-going COVID19 national emergency including two lockdowns in 2020 and in 2021 during which government policy focused on import substitution and…
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As part of its, drive to highlight opportunities available in the agriculture and tourism sectors, The Innovation Village Mbarara will host an Agri-Tourism Expo from March 29, 2021 to March 31, 2021. The expo is expected to trigger different ideas that make tourism both meaningful and adventurous. Conversations will rotate around apiculture, aqua farming, horticulture, viticulture, floriculture and perm culture, among others. The hope is that the expo will also open up new profitable markets for farm products and services and, provide travel experiences for a large regional market. The Agri-Tourism Expo is a timely initiative in Mbarara. As a…
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