Uganda Sugar Manufacturers Association USMA says the increase in prices has been prompted by the increase in cost of production and the deprecating shilling against major currencies.
Alex Ruhunda, the Trade, Tourism and Industry Committee Chairperson and Fort Portal Municipality MP, says the Authority has suffered abuse for the last 11 years due to underfunding.
Uganda loses an estimated USD 429 million 1.5 billion Shillings in foreign earnings annually to illegal and unrecorded immature fishing, according to Agriculture Minister Vincent Bamulangaki Sempijja. This is mainly a big percentage of fish on the local market is immature and therefore not competitive on the international market.
