The Madhvanis: The industrialists who have tasted sucrose and success
- Forbes
- 02 April 2019
Interview with Mayur and Kamlesh Madhvani, the Joint Managing Directors of the Madhvani Group which controls a 14,000 hectare sugar estate in Uganda
Interview with Mayur and Kamlesh Madhvani, the Joint Managing Directors of the Madhvani Group which controls a 14,000 hectare sugar estate in Uganda
Land deals along River Nile could easily impair its recharging potential if water abstraction is not regulated.
MOUs signed by UAE government include a 2,500 ha SEZ zone with Uganda for large-scale agricultural development and another with Al Dahra Holding for collaboration on the implementation of the National Strategy for Future Food Security.
The 2,500 hectare free zone will allow private companies from the UAE to invest in agricultural production and development in Uganda.
During the first ever feminist school in Uganda, the Rural Women’s Movement underlined that land is central to people’s identity, livelihoods and food security.
The Uganda government began handing over tracts of land for palm-oil production to Wilmar International Ltd.’s local unit, removing the final hurdle for an expansion project that’s been delayed for almost a decade.
Jospeh Initiative limited, a company funded by United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID) is grabbing about 2000 hectares and forcefully evicting over 2300 families off their land in Uganda
President Museveni has promised to allot 7,000 hectares of land in Mbarara District to one of the UAE’s largest dairy companies, Al Rawabi, to set up model farm in the country. The investor and CEO, Dr Ahmad Eltigani Al Mansouri, will bring in new technology to fertilise cows that produce high milk, according to a press release from State House.
Since 2006, a section of conservationists have been opposed to the Kalangala Oil Palm project as was the case with the BIDCO Buvuma project saying it is a big threat to the environment.
Payoff follows mediation by the dispute resolution office of the World Bank’s IFC but of the 36 farmers who were compensated, eight later rejected the deal and are expected to take their case to court this month
About 5,000 residents in the Island district of Buvuma have rejected a government proposal to compensate them for their land to pave way for oil palm growing for Bidco Uganda, claiming their property was undervalued.
An increase in land grabbing in Uganda has pushed Slow Food to launch a campaign against it
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