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Production and Productivity
SECTION A: ANIMAL HEALTH DEVELOPMENT 1. Livestock Disease Surveillance and Monitoring There are endemic diseases affecting animals periodically, so there is a need to monitor and check for indicators leading to this. Routine examinations are also done during such...
A Call to Manage Animal Health for Quality Production
Drawn from 34 primary cooperative societies, livestock farmers under their umbrella body Uganda Meat Producers Cooperative Union Ltd (UMPCU), gathered at their livestock resource centre 1 in Butalangu town council, Nakaseke district to attend the 2020 annual general...
Raise a wealth of beef breeders
There is a need to develop more fatteners of beef cattle in Uganda. These words were echoed by Uganda’s Head of State President Yoweri K. Museveni, while commissioning the livestock resource center 2 (LRC2) of Uganda Meat Producers Cooperative Union Ltd, financed by...
Understanding Production and Productivity
Uganda Meat Producers Cooperative Union Ltd (UMPCU) is hinged on five focus areas in order to achieve its objectives. These are: Livestock production and productivityAccess and InclusionLivestock MarketingLobbying and AdvocacyInstitutional development There are...
FMD thrives in an animal’s lymph nodes
Foot and Mouth Disease commonly referred to as FMD is a severe highly contagious viral disease which mainly affects cloven foot animals like cattle, swine, sheep, goats, among others. FMD mainly survives in the lymph nodes and bone marrow at a neutral PH (measure of...
FMD vaccination launched in Nakaseke district
The Minister of State for Animal Industry, Hon. Dr. Bright K. Rwamirama has encouraged livestock farmers to practice breeding of cattle for business. The Minister said this while launching a vaccination program for Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) in Nakaseke district on...
Labcards launched in UMPCU animal diagnostics laboratories
The livestock diagnostics application (app) for veterinarians, labcard provides for easy on-farm data collection for samples through the use of a mobile phone. With support from Zoetis, veterinary staff and farmers from the districts of Luwero, Kyankwanzi,...
UMPCU veterinarians trained in ultrasound pregnancy diagnosis
UMPCU veterinarians and assistant animal husbandry officers are undergoing training on the use of ultrasound equipment in pregnancy diagnosis. The Union procures live animals for slaughter through its business arm Uganda Farmers Meat Company Ltd, however, it faces...
Presidential address on COVID-19
The world over has been affected by the COVID-19; coronavirus with thousands of people dying, falling sick and being scared of contracting the disease. Uganda registered the 1st case of coronavirus on the 22nd March 2020. His Excellency, President Yoweri Kaguta...
Annual General Meeting 2020
Uganda Meat Producers Cooperative Union Ltd would like to inform its members that the Annual General Meeting which was scheduled for Friday 27th March 2020, has been postponed to Thursday 30th April 2020 when it is hoped that the health crisis will have been resolved....
Animal health diagnostic tests recommended before treatment
Livestock farmers in Sembabule district and its surrounding areas have been educated about tick resistance, classification of acaricides; the different brands on the market, and acaricide use and rotation. UMPCU in collaboration with Norbrook Uganda held a seminar on...
Ensuring a healthy herd through animal disease control
Deworming is a routine practice done on a farm after a period of 3-4 months depending on the location of the farm and helminths load in animals, as well as the clinical signs observed for helminthiasis in cattle. “Helminths are worm-like...
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