Lira, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | For decades, cocoa cultivation was considered impossible in Lira and the wider Lango sub-region. Farmers believed the area’s rainfall patterns, heat, and soil conditions could not support a crop traditionally associated with wetter regions such as Bundibugyo or West Africa. Today, that assumption …
Read More »
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has approved a government request to borrow up to €168.9 million from the United Kingdom Export Finance (UKEF) and Citi Bank to finance Phase II of the Solar Powered Irrigation Systems Project aimed at boosting coffee production and strengthening climate resilience. The loan …
Read More »
Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Uganda’s growing climate crisis is forcing policymakers, financiers, development agencies and agribusinesses to rethink how the country will feed itself in an era of erratic rainfall, prolonged droughts and rising temperatures. At the centre of that conversation is solar-powered irrigation systems (SPIS), a technology increasingly …
Read More »
The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
