Coffee nursery operators paid sh3b
Sep 09, 2006
THE Government has released sh3b to finalise payments to nursery bed operators who supplied coffee seedlings in 2002/04.
By Samuel Balagadde
THE Government has released sh3b to finalise payments to nursery bed operators who supplied coffee seedlings in 2002/04.
Agriculture state minister, Kibirige Ssebunya said at a stakeholders meeting at the Grand Imperial Hotel that the Government procured Colono Coffee seedlings from private nursery operators and had remained with a debt of sh3b.
Uganda Coffee Development Authority’s managing director, Henry Ngabirano, said seedlings worth sh9b were procured from different operators on credit and supplied to farmers as a strategic intervention in declining prices of coffee on the national and international markets.
“Many of the nursery bed operators were cleared and remained with a debt of sh3b, which the government has released. They were paid in phases beginning with those who supplied first,†Ngabirano said.
THE Government has released sh3b to finalise payments to nursery bed operators who supplied coffee seedlings in 2002/04.
Agriculture state minister, Kibirige Ssebunya said at a stakeholders meeting at the Grand Imperial Hotel that the Government procured Colono Coffee seedlings from private nursery operators and had remained with a debt of sh3b.
Uganda Coffee Development Authority’s managing director, Henry Ngabirano, said seedlings worth sh9b were procured from different operators on credit and supplied to farmers as a strategic intervention in declining prices of coffee on the national and international markets.
“Many of the nursery bed operators were cleared and remained with a debt of sh3b, which the government has released. They were paid in phases beginning with those who supplied first,†Ngabirano said.