Coming from Nakasongola District, Stephen Ssekanyo believes maize is the most important crop in Uganda. This is what motivated him to innovate a machine that makes the production process of the crop ...

Many maize farmers have started to harvest their produce, but one of the sad realities they have to grapple with is that 30 per cent of the grains would go to waste due to poor handling and drying and ...

During this season of unrelenting rains, the traditional method of maize drying by spreading the grains on a polythene sheet to dry under the sun is not sustainable. [Kevin Tunoi, Standard] As days go ...

Simon Gatagia feeds a handful of dry maize stalks in a large bowl on the rear end of a grinding machine. He intends to use the ground maize stalks as the base material for a 70kg bag of dairy feeds he ...

The entrepreneurs that buy, dry and aggregate maize produce are decrying shortage of mobile drying machines following the high demand amidst prolonged heavy rains. This call follows last year's ...

The Ministry of Agriculture and Animal Resources (MINAGRI) has embarked on the use of mobile grain dryers in a bid to reduce post-harvest losses and limit exposure of the harvest to aflatoxin.

As part of measures to contain the rising food inflation, the Enugu State government last week disbursed 102 solar-powered water pumping machines to farmers for dry-season rice and maize farming in ...