The fruits and vegetable sector is constrained by a multiplicity of pests and diseases, the most serious of which are fruit flies (Diptera: Tephritidae). Damage attributed to fruit fly infestation range from 33 to 83% and can reach 100% if no interventions are put in...
NARO Feed the Future activity is a both research and development initiative between National Agricultural research Organization (NARO) and USAID with the aim to promote the use and commercialization of improved technologies with yield and nutritional enhancing characteristics in Uganda. This initiative will focus on...
Government of Uganda is implementing an agricultural investment project through the international fund for agricultural development (IFAD) in Acholi sub-region called the Project for the Restoration of Livelihoods in the Northern Region (PRELNOR). This project is being implemented by the ministry of local government. PRELNOR’s development...
Smallholder farmers in Uganda are increasingly facing a wide range of agricultural production risks—climate and non-climate related risks. For instance, low productivity can be attributed to non-climatic factors such as limited use of external inputs or nutrient mining and soil erosion, as well as climate-related...
Several reports in the print and social media about what was called ‘a new banana disease’ were received by the National Agricultural Research Laboratories of NARO at Kawanda. These reports from some districts in western Uganda described a strange disease that makes the bananas rusty...
Fusarium wilt of banana, popularly known as Panama disease, is a lethal fungal disease caused by the soil-borne fungus Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) that has been a big threat to the productivity of Cavendish /dessert bananas for years. This fungus enters the plant...