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Daily Monitor
Tuesday May 25 2021
A farmer in his cassava garden in Lakwana Sub-county, Omoro District recently. Cassava farmers in Nwoya District have been affected by Brown Streak Virus. PHOTO/ CAROLINE AYUGI
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According to farmers, the disease ravaged their cassava gardens between 2017 and 2019.
Ms Christine Apiyo, a farmer in Akili Village in Koch Goma Sub-county, told Daily Monitor that she lost five acres of cassava plantation to the disease in 2018.
Just like many other farmers in Nwoya, Ms Apiyo embraced cassava growing when the district passed an ordinance eight years ago.
Initially, during harvest period, Ms Apiyo says she would collect about Shs1.8m from an acre of cassava.
Daily Monitor
Monday May 17 2021
Gulu Town on March 16, 2020. Departments in demand of staff include works, planning, trade commerce, industry and local economic development. PHOTO | RACHEL MABALA
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The term of Gulu District service commission expired in January.
In the absence of the commission, the district has been unable to recruit personnel to fill up key positions in the district administration.
Before dissolving last week, the council tasked Mr Okaka to allocate resources to hire the service commission from another district to conduct the exercise.
Mr Martin Ojara Mapenduzi, the outgoing Gulu District chairperson, said unless such action is taken, the district risks losing billions, adding that certain activities planned in the district budget cannot be implemented without personnel.
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.