Uganda’s Minister of Trade, Amelia Kyambadde has revealed that the country is training farmers in specific quality and standards to take across the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She added that Economic integration deepened through engagement in sectoral councils (resolving the outstanding NTBs and facilitate smooth trading under the COVID 19 pandemic); <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Standard harmonization; harmonization of the EAC position within the Tripartite and AfCFTA; review of the Common External Tariff (CET)\u2013harmonization of the CET review with the AfCFTA offer (still work in progress). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Implementation of the Common Market Protocol<\/strong>-implementation of the Northern Corridor Initiative, Signing of the Mutual Recognition Agreement to ease movement of persons in the professions of Engineers, lawyers, accountants; ease of movement of persons by having a common tourism visa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Farmers have been mobilized to form Commodity Cooperatives, and so far 1083 Commodity Cooperatives have been formed along the following value chains:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maize 113<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cotton 11<\/p>\n\n\n\n Coffee 353<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dairy 83<\/p>\n\n\n\n Livestock 30<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rice 39<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beans\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 16<\/p>\n\n\n\n READ THE FULL REPORT BELOW<\/p>\n\n\n\n Uganda’s Minister of Trade, Amelia Kyambadde has revealed that the country is training farmers in specific quality and standards to take across the border. She added that Economic integration deepened through engagement in sectoral councils (resolving the outstanding NTBs and facilitate smooth trading under the COVID 19 pandemic); Standard harmonization; harmonization of the EAC position […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":23857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23861,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23853\/revisions\/23861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}