MbaZARDI News Letter
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Isaac Newton Alou
The average rice (Oryza sativa L.) farmer in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) harvests less than 1.5 t ha’ of grain yield in uplands production systems, while the yield potential is substantially higher.
There are large yield potential gaps due…
Barbara Mugwanya Zawedde
NARO
Kaiira Moses Godfrey
Rice is a major food and cash crop under various mixed cropping systems in Uganda. Rice and
some intercrops exhibit allelopathic properties and productivity is on the decline yet little is
known about the causes of allelopathy, declining…
NARO
Arthur Wasukira
Banana bacterial wilt caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. musacearum (Xcm) has caused significant decline in livelihoods dependent on the banana/musa enterprise in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa. Recently, affordable genome sequ…
Agnes Sarah Otim
Uganda’s annual honey yield is lower than the expected production potential of 500,000 tones
basing on the country’s vegetation type. The aim of this study was to establish the factors that
affect the performance of African honey bee c…
Godfrey Sseremba
Solatium aethiopicum is one of the most important Solatium species, with four morphological
groups. Two of the groups, Gilo and Shum, are mainly cultivated because of their nutritional value
and income generating potential for farmers in…
Kaweesi Tadeo
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz), as a food security crop in Africa is devastated by many biotic
factors which include pests and diseases. Of these, diseases caused by cassava brown streak viruses
and cassava mosaic viruses, transmit…
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