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 ...

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 ...

“Maize processing industries reject some produce due to aflatoxin. Over 15 per cent of maize can be affected, while around 40 per cent of tomatoes can be wasted due to a lack of cooling and storage ...

Workers ponder outside the silos after part of maize drying machine caught fire at the National Cereals and Produce Board depot in Eldoret on January 4, 2018. [Peter Ochieng, Standard] The Government ...

Douglas Opio examines how the control panel of the grain dryer works. Photo / Roland D. Nasasira. The most common methods of drying grains is spreading it on a tarpaulin or the bare ground. How long ...

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.

President Nana Akufo-Addo on Tuesday commissioned the Sekyere Maize Processing Factory located in Nsuta Kwagye in the Sekyere Central District of the Ashanti Region. The construction of the Sekyere ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has inaugurated an ultra-modern maize processing factory at Nsuta-Kwagye in the Sekyere-Central District of the Ashanti Region, a project executed under the ‘One ...