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| Shamba darasa going on!! |
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| Training activities going on!!!!!! |
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| Cleaning planting materials. |
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| Training going on. |
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| Geofrey Okao assistant country team leader in Uganda, showing Lira farmers the infected cassava plant. |
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| Demo planting at Nakaseke in Uganda |
DEMONSTRATION OF BENEFITS OF USING CLEAN CASSAVA PLANTING MATERIALS AND FARMER TRAININGS IN LIRA AND NAKASEKE - UGANDA
on Monday, June 30, 2014
85 farmers; 54 males and 31 females were
trained on cassava agronomy and cassava pests and diseases at the demonstration
sites in Lira and Nakaseke on 20th May 2014 and 21st May
2014, respectively. The number of planting materials produced will be recorded and farmer responses will be collected. This will help
to bring to the farmers’ awareness the benefits of using virus-indexed planting
materials as a way of ensuring sustainable management of cassava mosaic and
brown streak virus diseases for improved cassava productivity.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM VISIT ZAMBIA FOR PROJECT OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
on Monday, June 9, 2014
The cassava disease diagnostics project team members, recently conducted a series of outreach activities and Monitoring and evaluation at Mount makulu central research station in Zambia agricultural research institute. (ZARI).
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| Project management team listening to Mr. John kimani a director at Arulusa farm in chiwombo district central province in Zambia. |
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| Project management team having a group photo with Kalundu village farmers in Lufunsa district Lusaka province Zambia. |
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| Miriam Goma a research assistant in Zambia interviewing Kalundu village farmers, this was during the M& E and outreach activities. |
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| Mathew Matimelo assistant country team leader in Zambia explain to kalundu farmers how to manage the Cassava brown streak disease. |
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| Country team leader Dr. Patrick Chikoti (Zambia) explaining to farmers how to observe the infected cassava leaf, looking on (blue shirt) is Dr. Joseph Ndunguru coordinator of the project. |
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| Kalundu farmers listening to Dr. Patrick Chikoti country team leader (Zambia). |
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| Project management team having a discussion with a director of Zambia agricultural research institute (ZARI). |
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| Dr. Richard Chanda Principal seeds officer at seed control & certification institute in Chilanga - Zambia (SCCI) showing project management team a genetic analyzer, this was during the M&E activities |
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| Dr. Richard Chanda welcome the project management team to his office in Chilanga - Zambia |
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| Dr. Peter Sseruwagi introducing the project management team to Dr. Richard Chanda a principal seeds officer (SCCI). |
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| ZARI staff listening to project ccordinator. |
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| Staff at Zambia Agricultural Research Institute (ZARI) listening to Project coordinator Dr. Joseph Ndunguru, this was during the M& E activities. |
TIM FOLGER INTERVIEW RESEARCH ASSISTANT FROM CASSAVA PROJECT STAFF AT MARI.
on Thursday, March 6, 2014
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| Laurensia Mushi a Research Assistant in the Cassava diagnostic project at Mikocheni Agricultural Research Institute Lab being interviewed byTim Folger from the National Geographic, USA yesterday. |
PROJECT OUTREACHES
The cassava disease diagnostic project team members, recently conducted a series of outreaches and baseline data surveys in different countries with different cassava stakeholders
Project team talking to the Dean of Faculty of Agriculture Dr. Solange Uhituze at the University of Rwanda in Butare
Project team members discussing with the Assistant Commisioner Ms Florence Tumuboine of the Plant Health and Seed Certification of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Entebbe, Uganda
Project team members at cassava processing plant run by Ituze Cooperative in Rwanda in February 2014
Dr Peter Sseruwagi and Marie Kanyange examining dried cassava at a farmers house in Southern Rwanda.
Cassava project team members visiting the tissue culture lab at Rubona in Rwanda
Project team members at Nakasongola District Famers Association in Uganda
Project members at BioCrops Uganda limited, a private tissue culture facility in Uganda
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Dr. Joseph Ndunguru and the other project team members talking to a cassava farmer (Justina Ssenku) seriously afftected by cassava brown streak disease in Nakasongola in Uganda
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| Dr. Peter Sseruwagi showing farmers how to plant a cassava variety known as Mumba which came from Central Tanzania (Dodoma region). |
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| Outreach Going on!!!! |
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| Dr. Joseph Ndunguru explaining to Upendo group farmers from MKINGA village in Mbinga district how to plant Mumba variety from central Tanzania, also this is a demo sites in Ruvuma region. |
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| Improved cassava clean plant lets known as Mumba from Central Tanzania. |
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| Senior reporter for the Guardian news paper, Gerald Kitabu(left) listening to Dr. Peter SSeruwagi on cassava disease management. |
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| The acting director general of Tanzania official seed certification Institute (TOSCI) Tasiana Maingu (left) showing scientists from MARI, a purity lab at Sokoine University (SUA). |
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| Project team members discussing with leaders of a Ituze farmers Cooperative in Rwanda. |
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| Dr Joseph Ndunguru and Marie Kanyange admiring fresh and nice cassava roots at Kinazi Cassava Plant recently in Rwanda. |
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| Project team members at KEPHIS in Kenya |
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| Dr. Joseph Ndunguru, Fred Tairo and other project members holding a discussion at BECA, in Nairobi, Kenya |
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| Project team inspecting cassava breeders trial at KARI - MTWAPA in Kenya.The team was hosted by Dr. Theresia Monga. |
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| Dr. Peter Sseruwagi examining virus indexed cassava in a green house at KARI - NJORO in Kenya during a recent visit |
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