Know-how for Northern Uganda's farms.
Practical, sourced guides on tractor hire and mechanization, how SACCOs and cooperative finance work, quality seed, farm loans, and getting a fair price for your harvest, written by the cooperative that does this work every season.
Savings & Credit How to finance a tractor or farm equipment
A clear comparison of the real ways to finance a tractor or farm equipment in Uganda: from SACCO loans and the Microfinance Support Centre to UDB and asset financing, with indicative rates and how to qualify without bank collateral.
Farming Growing groundnuts in Northern Uganda
Groundnuts are one of the north's most important cash crops. Here is how to choose quality seed, beat rosette disease, close the yield gap, dry and store properly, and get a fair price for your harvest.
Markets Getting a fair price for your harvest
Why selling alone to roadside middlemen costs you, and how bulking through a group, better timing and proper post-harvest handling can lift the price you get per kilo of your harvest.
Mechanization Tractor hire costs in Northern Uganda (2026)
A clear, current breakdown of per-acre tractor-hire rates in the Acholi, Lango, Karamoja and West Nile sub-regions, ploughing, harrowing, ridging and harvesting, plus what moves the price and how to book.
Cooperatives What is a SACCO, and how it works in Uganda
What a savings and credit cooperative actually is, how it differs from a bank, who regulates SACCOs in Uganda, how to join one, and how the save-and-borrow model lets farmers borrow without land titles.
Farming Cassava farming in Northern Uganda
Which disease-resistant varieties to plant, how to plant clean cuttings the right way, the yields improved varieties deliver, and how to beat the two diseases that can wipe out a cassava crop.
Savings & Credit How SACCO savings and loans work
The types of savings, how the savings-multiple loan ceiling actually works, the main loan products, guarantors, and dividends, explained in plain language with worked shilling examples.
Cooperatives How to join a SACCO: step-by-step
Exactly what to bring, what it costs, how vetting works, and what you get and owe as a member, plus how to tell a well-run SACCO from a risky one before you hand over a shilling.
Farming Maize farming in Northern Uganda
Which variety to plant, how to space and feed the crop, how to beat fall armyworm, and the planting windows that decide your maize yield in the Acholi, Lango and West Nile sub-regions.
Mechanization Land preparation: ploughing, harrowing & ridging
What ploughing, harrowing and ridging each do, the right order to do them in, which crops need which, and why getting the seedbed right is the foundation of every good harvest.
Farming Northern Uganda planting calendar
The north's single long rainy season, when to plant each major crop within it, and why getting your land ready before the rains break is the biggest decision of the farming year.
Mechanization Make money from your tractor
A tractor only pays when it works. Here is how owners in Northern Uganda keep machines busy, what the per-acre economics look like, and how a cooperative turns one idle tractor into a steady earner.
Farming Cutting post-harvest losses & aflatoxin
Farmers in the north can lose a third of some crops after harvest, and breed a dangerous toxin doing it. Here is how to harvest, dry, shell and store so your crop keeps its value and stays safe.
Farming Sesame (simsim) farming in Northern Uganda
The north grows the lion's share of Uganda's sesame. Here is how to choose Sesim varieties, plant the tiny seed well, beat webworm and shattering, and tap a strong export market.
Farming Soybean farming in Northern Uganda
The Maksoy varieties to plant, why inoculant and nitrogen fixation matter, the yields to aim for, and why soybean is one of the north's fastest-growing cash crops.
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