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Open result →Smallholder dairy cattle producers in Uganda face major production constraints including inadequate and poor quality feeds. This has led to low milk yield, long calving intervals and low growth rates. Forage technolog…
Open result →In Buikwe Country, Mukono District, between April 2001 and March 2002, the effectiveness of the following methods of controlling nagana in cattle: Diminazene aceturate therapy; deltamethrine impregnated pyramidal trap…
Open result →The purpose of this study was to establish the relationship between the financial factors and the adoption of improved maize in Iganga district, Uganda. A conceptual framework was developed using the Independent and D…
Open result →Watersheds as hydrologic units comprise combinations of arable and nonarable land and drainage lines and are utilized by permanent and transient populations with varying skills and committment to long term resource husb…
Open result →Locally available nutrient materials (Cowdung, Soybean extracts and Diammonium Phosphate (DAP)ZUREA inorganic fertilizer) were used to prepare culture media for growing Chlorella spp. as a food base for rotifer cult…
Open result →This study is aimed at designing an improved Information retrieval system (IRS) for the agricultural research sector in Uganda. The improved IRS is based on E-mail. For this reason, a survey was conducted to ascertain…
Open result →This study summarizes the results from a study conducted in Masindi district, Uganda to evaluate soil fertility management practices in market oriented agricultural production. A series of policy and institutional r…
Open result →Information on efficiency in sunflower production is generally lacking and this in turn has severely limited the ability to devise promising policy initiatives in sunflower industry. This study was therefore motivated…
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Open result →The Government of Uganda's initiative to enhance agricultural productivity and market access for smallholder farmers by generating, disseminating, and adopting high-yielding crop varieties and effective land management …
Open result →Biogas is a renewable energy resource comprising of mainly methane, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen sulphide. Its range of uses can be increased by removing hydrogen sulphide and enhancing methane content by removal of c…
Open result →Low uptake of improved agricultural technologies is a major challenge to enhancing agricultural productivity and ensuring food security in developing countries. While a number of studies have analyzed technology use…
Open result →The sugar industry in Uganda and Hast Africa is of economic importance in terms of employment opportunities, government revenue, and sugar production for export and domestic consumption. However, there is a problem of…
Open result →The economic crisis of sub-Saharan African countries in the early 1980s has led to the adoption of the Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) as a recommendation by international donor agencies such as the World Bank…
Open result →Approximately 90% of Uganda’s population lives without access to electricity. The rural households with no access to electricity incur high prices for imported kerosene and diesel. They are vulnerable to indoor air po…
Open result →The linear model of technology generation and transfer from researcher to extensionist to farmers has been the dominant approach to improve livelihoods based on agriculture and rural development has not resulted in the …
Open result →World per capita food production is today estimated to be about 18% above what it was 30 years ago, but much of Africa is nutritionally worse off today than it was then. Since the vast majority of the poor in Africa dep…
Open result →This strategic plan depicts the direction that the Agroforestry Research Programme (AFRP) of the National Forestry Resources Research Institute (NaFORRI) is going to take from 2016/2017 to 2025/2026. This programme wa…
Open result →The FtF NARO activity was a research and development initiative between the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) and USAID with the aim of promoting the use and commercialization of improved technologies w…
Open result →The FAO–China–Uganda South–South Cooperation (SSC) Project (Phase III) was a highly successful, triangular agricultural partnership designed to upgrade local farming from subsistence to commercial scale. It built upon e…
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Open result →A nutritionally balanced floating feed formulation based on locally available ingredients.
Open result →This strategy is an analysis of the regulatory environment for approval and safe conduct of Confined Field Trial (CFT) in Uganda with particular emphasis on drought tolerant transgenic maize. It provides mechanisms …
Open result →Rice is the seed of the monocot plant Oryza saliva. As a cereal grain, it is the most important staple food for a large part of the world's human population which includes South East Asia, the Middle East, Latin Ame…
Open result →Groundnut rosette disease (GRD) is the most destructive virus disease of Valencia groundnuts (Arachis hypogaea L.) in Africa. To widen the germplasm base of Valencia types grown in Uganda, two exotic Valencia lines na…
Open result →Household food security is defined as the access by the household to sufficient food to provide all members with good health and an active life. It should also cater for the members’ confidence that adequate food will…
Open result →Agriculture is the backbone of Ghana and about half of the country's population are classified as farming population. It is therefore necessary to put a lot of effort in developing this sector to the optimum so as to…
Open result →Brucellosis is among the most widespread zoonotic infections. The disease is transmitted from infected animals by direct contact with blood, fetuses and fetal membranes, uterine secretions, and aborted material or thr…
Open result →Imported Artemia cysts (the Brine Shrimp) arc currently the readily available live starter feed to locally grown rotifers (Brachionus calyciflorus) as an alternative starter live feed to Artemia in the feeding of Afri…
Open result →Maize population significantly affected bean leaf area (LA) and total dry matter (TDM), but had no significant effect on plant height, yield, and pods plant'1 in both seasons. On the other hand, the effect of bean PPD…
Open result →Seasonal water fluctuations both in quality and quantity negatively affect livestock production and subsequently reduce livestock-water productivity (LWP) in rainfed pastoral production systems. The major contributing…
Open result →Phytophagous Fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae) cause heavy losses on fruits and vegetable crops, and pose a threat to the commercialisation of the horticulture industry in Uganda. In order to develop an effective m…
Open result →Drought stress has and continues to be a limiting factor to banana productivity. The effects arc significant on crop growth and its yield. However significant increases in yield depend on moisture availability and exp…
Open result →Declining soil fertility is a fundamental impediment to agricultural growth and a major reason for the slow growth in food production in sub-Saharan Africa. Among the primary plant macronutrients, phosphorus is the mo…
Open result →Smallholder dairy farms are increasingly being rediscovered as a strategy for improving livelihood to access diversify of food, employment as well as cash income. However, poor feeds remain a big challenge to dairy ca…
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