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As Uganda heats up, pests and disease flourish to attack its top export crop

2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Inter Press Service: When Abudu Zikusoka was a small boy his father would bring people to their home in Ndesse village in Central Uganda's Mukono district. He would watch as they packed the family's harvested coffee into sacks and then loaded it onto their bicycles. "I used to see one of them giving daddy money from which he took out some coins to give my sister," Zikusoka tells IPS. "When my brother started going to school, daddy continued with the practice until one day I asked my sister where she was taking...

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Uganda predicts bigger coffee crop

2014-09-15 18:01:28| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Uganda's coffee farmers are looking forward to a bigger harvest of beans this year thanks to more rain

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June's top stories: Alstom and Vinci win 2bn contract, Uganda to award $8bn contracts

2014-07-09 01:00:00| Railway Technology

A 2bn Qatar tram transport contract was awarded to a consortium comprised Alstom and Vinci subsidiary QDVC, while the Ugandan Government began looking for bidders in China for $8bn worth of rail contracts. Railway-technology.com wraps-up key headlin

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Envoy pleased with increase of SA investments in Uganda

2014-06-23 08:39:29| Airlines - Topix.net

Seven years ago, South African firms had invested more than $500m in Uganda. They included telecommunication , breweries , finance , wholesale and retail , poultry , Sanlam Insurance, energy and many others Kampala.

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