Busia, Uganda | URN | Poultry farmers in Busia District are increasingly crossing into neighbouring Kenya to buy feeds, vaccines and drugs, citing lower prices and rising production costs in Uganda. The farmers say a 50-kilogramme bag of starter crumbs costs about KSh4,139, equivalent to roughly Shs125,000, in Kenya, compared with …
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Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Poultry farmers in Buyengo parish, Dabani sub-county of Busia district have lost more than 9,000 chicken to Newcastle disease. Newcastle disease is a highly contagious viral disease of all species of birds. It is spread by direct contact with bodily fluids from infected birds and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The agriculture sector has been allocated 1.534 Trillion Shillings for the financial year 2021/2022. This is an increase more than half from the 940 Billion the sector got in the current budget. About a third of the budget which is 536 Billion Shillings will be spent …
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