…that the practice poses a serious threat to the state’s agro-industrialisation drive and local processing industries. The Group Managing Director of BIPC, Dr Raymond Asemakaha, made the appeal in a statement, urging farmers to supply their produce to the Bensono Concentrate Factory rather than selling it outside the st…

…can create enormous economic value: introducing higher-value crops, building local processing facilities, or refining raw materials domestically instead of exporting them unprocessed. Uganda, for example, has several artisanal gold mines but very limited refining capacity, which means much of the value leaves the count…