World Food Day at Rwebitaba ZARDI
H.E Yoweri K. Museveni the president of the Republic of Uganda visiting the NaSARRI stall at the World Food Day (WFD) Celebrations 2015 at Rwebitaba ZARDI one of the NARO Institutes in Fortportal District.
The National Semi Arid Resources Research Institute (NaSARRI), one of the 16 Public Agricultural Research Institutes under the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) in Uganda, secured a grant of about US$ 300,000 from the European Union to implement a 3 year Project entitled “Strengthening Seed Delivery Systems for Dry land Cereals and Legumes in drought prone areas of Uganda”also code named the “Cluster Granary Seed (CGS) Project”the project focuses on providing easy access to quality seed among resource poor farmers in the semi-arid region of Uganda. The project is being implemented in the districts of Kumi, Amuria and Kitgum. These districts were targeted so as to build the capacity of farmers who are recovering from the effects political insurgency and cattle rustling that greatly disrupted their peace to engage in productive agriculture for over two decades. Most of these farmers lost their property including seeds and crop diversity. Read More »
a) Diverse base of local / improved plant genetic resources adapted to drought prone areas assembled for access by farming / research communities.
b) Effective seed delivery model established to increase access to quality seed.
c) Capacity of farming communities to produce and conserve quality seed built.
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NaSARRI conducts research on only one fibre crop Cotton Read More... |
The dry land cereal programe conducts research in millets (finger and pearl millets) and sorghum. Read More... |
The dry land cereal programme conducts research on Cowpea and Greengram Read More... |
The Oilcrops program conducts research on (Groundnuts, Simsim and Sunflower). Read More... |
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