The BoU Executive Director for Research, Adam Mugume says that for now, the economic growth is expected to be slower by 0.5% unless the pandemic worsens in the short term.
The findings from a Survey from Heifer International finds that a budding crop of young Africans rapidly producing new high-tech farming tools—and identifies new ways to connect them with farmers.
The survey also gauges pandemic impact on African agribusinesses
Several of the intended beneficiaries in the area have continuously lost interest in the program with some withdrawing their membership from Savings and Credit Cooperatives- SACCOs.
Among the ravaged crops are rice, cassava, beans and sim-sim belonging to more than 80 households that were already in the final stages of maturity and consequent harvests.
The quarry had been closed a month ago by the Deputy Resident District Commissioner Richard Bwabye, following complaints from the community about the quarrying activities.
The government is set to upgrade the 115 kilometres road linking Kitgum Municipality, through Orom Sub-county to Karenga District from gravel to standard bitumen.
Meeting Members of Parliament assessing the impact of the program, the Principal Commercial Officer Beatrice Owembabazi said that none of the associations has returned the money.
On Wednesday, MPs probing the utilization of the Emyooga funds were told that Kwesiga side-lined Carla Teddy Ayo, the commercial officer and other members of the Emyooga task force and formed 317 new groups to replace the initial 411 groups that had been approved by the task force.
Businge tasked leaders in Kitgum Municipality to give priority to vendors who were earlier occupying the old market before new applicants are considered.
The Kenyan business executive came in as the bloc was grappling with several issues, including inadequate staffing in most of the departments, quarrels among partner states and trade disruptions, tariff and non-tariff barriers, among others.
According to Antonio Kalyango, the Executive Director-Biodiversity Conservation Forum (BFC, the campaign came after various reports from different experts indicating that the water from Lake Victoria is increasingly getting contaminated and may affect people’s health and livelihoods in addition to fish production.
