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Newburn from Bonde, 12/10/82
Report on Safari, North and East Districts - Pg 9
In every instance, the cooperatives said they would use U.C.T.U.'s
services under these conditions. In fact one manager had
suggested this program as far back as 1976 but could arouse
no one's interest.
In most instances, the unions and local societies felt that
the Lint Marketing Board was not serving its purpose. Their
first concern is that the Marketing B ard is slow in making
payments. The unions feel they could market their own product
more effectively, as one manager of a coffee union also
would find the Coffee Marketing Board unnecessary.
Several of the unions lacked hoops and gunny bags to begin
tb:i cotton season. Back in Kampala, George Muhurusi, the
U.U.T.U. Stores Manager assured me there are four tons of
hoop' and 2000 bales of gunny bags in the warehouse. I also
found a good supply of ginnery spares were available. The
Stores Manager suspects the unions are lackiig the money to
purchase these items but are too embarrassed to admit this.
Credit is not available if they are already in debt to the
U.C.T.U., which is also the reason that transport is often not
availabla to them.
With one exception (Teso Cooperative Union), the cooperative
unions were quite optimistic about the economic fiture of
Uganda. With the necessary inputs'for the farmer, plus good
transport and marketing facilities, they feel the rural
economy could make a relatively fast recovery.
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