Making the most of home-grown forage
Saturday May 01 2021
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There is growing interest in optimising the quality and quantity of home-grown forage for livestock but it takes skills and knowledge to do that. Proper production, experts say, influences the quality of fodder
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The rainy season is a good time to grow forage. This is because during the dry months, livestock demands often exceed available pastures.
Therefore, livestock farmers are faced with the decision of over utilising pastures, untimely selling of cattle or finding alternative feed resources.
Although most pasture grasses are quite resilient, it is common to expect that production following a drought will be reduced, even with average rainfall.
Poverty bites as locals in oil fields wait for pay-out
Monday April 19 2021
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As government continues to prospect and explore oil wells in parts of western, central and northern regions, scores of homesteads that have been displaced by the quest to have oil exports ready by 2025 have lost farmlands.
In Kakumiro District in western Uganda, more than 200 people affected by the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) have cited delayed compensation of their properties in the wake of signing of the tripartite pipeline between oil companies and Uganda and Tanzania governments.
Daily Monitor has established that the affected persons are mainly from Mpasana, Kisiita, Katikara, and Ntoroko sub-counties in Kakumiro.
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By Alex Tumuhimbise
Police in Kakumiro District are holding a police officer for allegedly shooting dead a suspect who was in custody on allegations of election violence.
John Barugahare, a resident of Kamuli village-Kyakajumbi parish in Kikwaya Sub County was shot dead on Sunday night in Kikwaya police post cell where he was being detained.
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