SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The overseas aid agency Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) said Tuesday it will launch the construction of a pilot cultivation complex for the development of native vegetable seeds in Uganda as part of efforts to help boost the income of local farmers. The test cultivation complex will be constructed [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport has been remodeled into a high-class hub set up with a cutting-edge flight operation system with support from the South Korean government. The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), South Korea’s overseas aid agency, said it had invested US$9.5 million since 2014 to upgrade the Ugandan [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — A memorial hall to remember Kim Bok-dong, an iconic Korean victim of Japanese wartime sexual slavery, will be built in Uganda, a Seoul-based civic group said Wednesday. According to the Korean Council for Justice and Remembrance (KCJR), the Kim Bok-dong Center will be built on a lot covering about [...]
BUYEO, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ugandan State Minister for Defense, Charles Okello Engola, took a leisurely stroll through the neatly organized rows of green inside one of Buyeo County’s “smart farms” on September 5. The place that he spent part of his Tuesday was a glass greenhouse, a next-generation agriculture initiative from the Ministry [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has exported genetic resources for dairy cattle to the East Africa region for the third consecutive year in 2016, the agriculture ministry said Friday. This year’s exports went to Uganda on request from livestock farms in the African country, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Alumni and retired professors from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Seoul National University (SNU) are establishing an agricultural school in Uganda to pass on their knowledge and technical expertise. A group of alumni announced on Sunday, July 3, that they had formed a committee for Uganda’s Sangrok [...]