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CASHEW nuts are a high value confectionery nut. They retail in Uganda at about sh8,000 a kilogramme. As an export, they are priced at an average of 140% more than that in the European snack food ...
Prime British photojournalist dies in Uganda after eating food with nuts Tuesday, March 10, 2015 — updated on January 18, 2021 ...
In 2022, the number of new cancer cases in Uganda increased to 35,968, from 27,410 a decade earlier and the number of cancer-related deaths also increased from 17,120 to 24,629 in the same period.
Whether you want to eat them raw, roasted with a little salt or as paste, groundnuts are a healthy snack and a rich source of proteins, vitamins B9,B6, B3 and E, antioxidants like pantothenic acid ...
The shea nut cooperative’s story began in 2004, during one of the darkest periods of Uganda’s modern history. “The group started with six members,” says Sarah Norah, one of the cooperative ...
Food Experts in Uganda Say They Want Farmers’ Opinions Before Introducing ... certain crops, sorghum, finger millet, ground nuts, pigeon peas. They have been actually drought tolerant ...
Even Uganda’s national food, matoke, a variety of banana cooked in its own leaves over charcoal and then mashed and served with a sauce made from ground peanuts (called “gnuts”), ...
U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, third left, gestures as he talks with refugees at Rwamwanja Refugee Settlement in Kamwenge District, Uganda, on Oct. 21, 2024.
Ssempijja said Uganda has deployed more than 2,000 military troops to carry out control operations but the lack of certain pesticides “hinders the use of aircraft which are much more efficient ...
Uganda hosts some 1.1 million refugees - more than any other African nation. Many are women and children who have fled across the border from South Sudan.
Antonio Querido, the Food and Agriculture Organization representative in Uganda, says in order to have better production, nutrition, environment and life, there's a need to transform agri-food ...