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Pineapple Factory Stalls Amid Ownership Dispute | Uganda News
A once-promising pineapple juice factory in Kayunga, valued at 2.5 billion shillings and meant to boost local farmers’ incomes, has sat idle for five years due to a bitter ownership dispute among its three partners—a pastor, an agroprocessing firm, and the government. Despite multiple attempts to resolve the conflict, including meetings with officials and even a proposal by one pastor to General Salim Saleh for government takeover, nothing has moved forward. Farmers have suffered, abandoning pineapple farming for sugarcane as their crops rot without market access. Local leaders now urge the…
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