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| Vice President (Tanzania) Dr. Mohamed Gharib Bilali (centre) having a group photo with participants |
MARI PARTICIPATES SCIENCE MEETING IN ARUSHA CITY - TANZANIA
on Thursday, August 7, 2014
It is a three days meeting from 5 - 8 August, 2014 taking place at the Nelson Mandela Africa Institution of Science and Technology in Arusha which brings together world class scientists inside and outside Africa region.MARI is represented by its officer in charge Dr. Joseph Ndunguru and assistant project coordinator ( Cassava virus disease diagnostic project) Dr. Peter Ssseruwagi.
AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CONNECTIONS (ARC) MEETING IN NAIROBI - KENYA
on Tuesday, July 22, 2014
From 15 - 20 June, 2014, agricultural research connections meeting was organized by BeCA - ILRI (Nairobi - Kenya) and Bill and Melinda gates foundation, the aim of this meeting was to bring together scientists within and outside Africa to foster scientific collaboration and to discuss on research BIO DATA issues.
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| Dr. Rogers and Laura during presentation at Jommo Kenyatta University of Agricultural and Technology. |
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| Cassava team discussion during the meeting. |
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| Meeting participants at KARI Muguga |
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| Meeting participants at KARI - Muguga maize research field |
PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM VISIT LILONGWE - MALAWI FOR PROJECT OUTREACH,MONITORING & EVALUATION ACTIVITIES.
on Monday, July 14, 2014
The cassava disease diagnostics project team members recently conducted a series of outreach, monitoring and evaluation activities at department of agricultural research services (DARS) at chitedze research station in Lilongwe - Malawi.
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| Project management team talking to Chambowo village farmers in Kalonga district, this was during the M&E visit in Lilongwe - Malawi. |
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| Project management team listening to farmers at Chambowo village, Kalonga district in Lilongwe - Malawi |
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| Project team members having a discussion with Dr. Clodina. C.Chuwa (extension methodologies system) from Department of agricultural extension services in Lilongwe - Malawi. |
THE VISIT OF DEPUTY MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD SECURITY AND COOPERATIVES AT MARI
on Friday, July 11, 2014
The deputy minister has call for change of negative mindset on the adoption of Genetically modified organism (GMOs) technology in the country. The deputy minister however, challenged scientists at MARI to establish the practically technology to enable the government to act accordingly.He said as long as there are no proven major negative impacts, he saw no logic in opposing the application of the technology as the government embarks on various plans to modernize agriculture and farming methods.
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| Charles Kayuki Laboratory Manager, explaining to Deputy minister (MAFC) Hon. Godfrey Zambia how the transformation lab works, looking on is Director of research and development Dr.Fidelis Miyaka. |
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| Staff listening to Director of research and development Dr. Fidelis Miyaka, this was during the visit of Deputy minister Hon. Godfrey Zambi at MARI. |
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| Deputy minister signing the visitors book at MARI. |
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| The acting officer in charge Dr. Fred Tairo (right) welcoming the Deputy minister Agriculture, food, security and cooperatives Godfrey Zambi at MARI on left is Dr. Fidelis Miyaka Director of research and development. |
PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM VISIT MOZAMBIQUE FOR PROJECT OUTREACH, MONITORING AND EVALUATION ACTIVITIES
on Wednesday, July 9, 2014
The cassava disease diagnostics project team members recently conducted a series of outreach and monitoring and evaluation activities at Research Institute of Agricultural in Maputo - Mozambique (IIAM) and also visited farmers in Boanne district Maputo province for outreach activities.
Dr. Peter Sseruwagi (technical coordinator) showing farmers cassava leaf affected by cassava brown streak disease (CBSD). This was taken during the M&E visit in Boanne district Maputo province.
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| Fransisca Mwanda M&E expert interviewing farmers in Saldanha village, boanne district - Maputo province.Looking on is Dr. Fred Tairo outreach coordinator and research assistants from Mozambique. |
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| Marta da Graca Eugenio Solemanegy and Azvedo dos santos Monteiro Suege (research assistant) observed the results of PCR in Agarose gel of positive sample. |
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| Project management team having a discussion with a vilogist Amandio Miguel Nuthambe (black shirt) from Mondlane University in Maputo - Mozambique |
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.
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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 |
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. |
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