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Kadaga Applauds Agriculture Innovations at NARO’s Crop, Livestock Institutes

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February 5, 2019
Kadaga Applauds Agriculture Innovations at NARO’s Crop, Livestock Institutes

Speaker of Parliament plating a tree during her visit to the NARO Institutes on Monday.

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Speaker of the Parliament, Rebecca Kadaga has lauded the initiatives being undertaken at the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO) crop and livestock institutes at Namulonge and Nakyesasa commenting that “it is possible for us to move the 68% of our Ugandans into the cash economy”.

Kadaga on Monday led a team of leaders from Busoga region to the NARO’s Crop and Livestock Resources Research Institutes in Namulonge and Nakyesasa on a learning mission of smart agricultural practices intended to boost agricultural production and productivity in Busoga sub-region.

The team of over thirty leaders was received by Agriculture Minister, Vincent Ssempija Bamulangaki together with the NARO Governing Council Chair, Prof. Joseph Obua and Director General Dr. Ambrose Agona. The delegation toured the Biosciences facility and the Confined Field Trials before heading to the Livestock Research Institute in Nakyesasa.

At Biosciences, Speaker Kadaga toured the on-going research from laboratory to confined field trials. While at the Confined Field Trials, the Speaker was exposed to the improved cassava progenies generated through crosses with farmer preferred varieties displaying high resistance to cassava brown streak disease and cassava mosaic disease notably to combat the ravaging effects of cassava virus.

“Annually, Ugandan farmers lose an estimated Ugx.100 billion to major cassava virus diseases,” said Dr. Asea the Director of Research at the Crop Research Institute.

NARO is also applying biotechnology tools in the development of potato varieties tolerant to potato blight disease, maize varieties tolerant to drought, maize stock borer and the fall army worm, banana varieties enhanced vitamin A content and with enhanced resistance to banana bacterial wilt, banana nematodes, banana black sigatoka.

At the Livestock Research Institute, Kadaga toured the vaccine evaluation platform where clinical trials for NARO produced (4) tick vaccines are being conducted in line with the World Health Organization procedures for release of a new drug. The NARO vaccines being produced include three tick-specific vaccines and one cocktail vaccine that has the potential to protect Ugandan cattle and beyond from the three most prevalent ticks.

According to the NARO Director Genereal, Dr Agona, once on the market, this vaccine will save this country over Shs 3.2 trillion which is the current expenditure on imported ticks and acaracide treatment for livestock.

The team also visited the Dairy circular production facility which houses a new breed of Viking jerseys that are considered appropriate for the local market in the current climatic conditions, a milking parlor, biogas and bio pesticide production facility.  

“The model that you see here today, Rt. Hon. Speaker is available for interested commercial farmers to adopt and replicate on their own farms. As a Research Organization, we pride ourselves in bringing the smartest agricultural practices closer to the people for increased production and productivity,” said Dr. Agona.

At the end of the tour, the Speaker welcomed the initiatives and smart agricultural practices that her team was shown and commended the National Agricultural Research Organization through the Ministry of Agriculture for the leadership they are providing the Sub-Saharan Africa region in Agriculture Research.

“It is possible for us to move the 68% of our Ugandans into the cash economy and I implore my colleagues the elected leaders to make use of the knowledge resources available to us through the Zonal Agricultural Research Institutes to enlighten our people on how to do it,” said Speaker Kadaga.

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