News in brief...
<b>No upland rice to plant</b><br>MBALE-There is a looming shortage of upland rice seeds (Nerica variety) for farmers for the next planting season, an official of the National Agricultural Advisory Services has said. Dr. Joseph Oryokot, the technical services manager, told journalists last week tha
No upland rice to plant
MBALE-There is a looming shortage of upland rice seeds (Nerica variety) for farmers for the next planting season, an official of the National Agricultural Advisory Services has said. Dr. Joseph Oryokot, the technical services manager, told journalists last week that the shortage was fuelled by the rising food prices in the country. “Uganda is the main producer of upland rice in East Africa. But farmers are taking advantage of the soaring food prices to sell off all the upland rice yields they got in the last season, to southern Sudan, Kenya and within.â€
LC5 chairman warns on time
BUDUDA-Civil servants must either improve their time management or resign, the district chairman, Wilson Watira, has warned. He added that the district risked losing sh150m for the repair of feeder roads due to poor time management because the money may not be used before the end of the financial year. “You come to office at 10:00am and by 2:00pm you are already out! Whom should the people blame if the money is taken back to the treasury?†Watira asked on Friday at the district headquarters.
Peasant freed from hanging
KAMPALA-A peasant on Wednesday escaped hanging when the Court of Appeal reduced the offence of aggravated robbery against him to theft. In 2003 the Jinja High Court sentenced James Semitewo, a resident of Busige village in Kamuli district, to death for robbing his uncle Noah Kifuse of sh850,000. But the Court of Appeal ruled that it was not aggravated robbery but simple theft he had committed since he did not use force.
MBALE-There is a looming shortage of upland rice seeds (Nerica variety) for farmers for the next planting season, an official of the National Agricultural Advisory Services has said. Dr. Joseph Oryokot, the technical services manager, told journalists last week that the shortage was fuelled by the rising food prices in the country. “Uganda is the main producer of upland rice in East Africa. But farmers are taking advantage of the soaring food prices to sell off all the upland rice yields they got in the last season, to southern Sudan, Kenya and within.â€
LC5 chairman warns on time
BUDUDA-Civil servants must either improve their time management or resign, the district chairman, Wilson Watira, has warned. He added that the district risked losing sh150m for the repair of feeder roads due to poor time management because the money may not be used before the end of the financial year. “You come to office at 10:00am and by 2:00pm you are already out! Whom should the people blame if the money is taken back to the treasury?†Watira asked on Friday at the district headquarters.
Peasant freed from hanging
KAMPALA-A peasant on Wednesday escaped hanging when the Court of Appeal reduced the offence of aggravated robbery against him to theft. In 2003 the Jinja High Court sentenced James Semitewo, a resident of Busige village in Kamuli district, to death for robbing his uncle Noah Kifuse of sh850,000. But the Court of Appeal ruled that it was not aggravated robbery but simple theft he had committed since he did not use force.