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This study characterised 68 pigeonpea accessions in terms of morphological traits and resistance to Fusarium wilt. Two broad phenotypic clusters were identified, and 16 appeared to possess some resistance to Fusarium wilt.
Sorghum and cereals in general are staple cereals consumed predominantly with little value addition. Consequently, these crops yield low remunerability in the economy of Uganda and many similar countries. The value of cereals such as sorgh…
The stem rust Puccinia graminis tritici race ug99 (TTKSK) and its variants results into wheat grain losses ranging from 70- 100%. This study was set up at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), Njoro to identify sources of parti…
This study was conducted at Southern Nigeria from 2010 to 2011 periods of honey producing seasons. Five honey samples from three states in Southern Nigeria were evaluated palynologically after acetolysis to determine their pollen spectrum.…
Banana (Musa spp.) is one of the most important food crops that contribute to the food security of the majority small holders in Kenya. However, due to diseases, banana production has not reached its full potential. Fusarium wilt caused by…
Maize is an important crop in the East African region, but continues to be plagued by biotic and abiotic constraints. Genotypes carrying genetic resistance to these constraints in addition to having good agronomic traits are the most desir…
Maize is a very important crop for small-scale farmers in Africa and also as food and feed resource. Despite this, storage pests cause high quality and quantity losses to the crop. One of the most important storage pests of maize is the ma…
Due to the unpredictable rainfall pattern and shorter growing seasons experienced in recent years in Ethiopia, early-maturing barley (Hordeum vulgare) genotypes are preferred by farmers in order to escape moisture stress and to bridge the …
Colletotrichum lindemuthianum is one of the most important constraints to common bean production in Uganda. The fungus is highly variable that single gene resistance alone is not adequate to offer effective and durable resistance among var…
Groundnut rosette virus disease (GRVD) is caused by a trio of viral components and is a major disease that can cause 100% crop losses in an epidemic situation. Thus, continued effort to develop resistant groundnut cultivars is critical in …
Sorghum is an important food security crop in sub-Saharan Africa, including eastern Africa but grain yields are very low. This is due to the many stresses it goes through during production in addition to use of unimproved genotypes. The ob…
Improved grain filling rate and grain filling duration are yield components that have potential to increase maize yield in early maize germplasm. These two factors have not been well studied in maize and thus cannot be easily exploited in …
Finger millet (Eleusine corocana L), though highly nutritious and indigenous to Uganda, has not been fully exploited due to limited breeding efforts, and little information about the diversity existing within the germplasm collection. This…
Sorghum varieties have been developed specifically for grain, forage or stem sugar but not for dual-purpose combining grain and forage use. Dual-purpose varieties could be beneficial to the resource-poor farmers by providing grain for huma…
Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) is a major crop of the hotter and drier regions of the tropics and subtropics grown by resource poor farmers for their subsistence. It can also be cultivated in marginal lands and areas of high rainfall charact…
Phytophthora capsici, a soil born fungus, is one of the most important constraint to hot pepper production in Uganda, causing root rot and wilt disease. Current management approaches that are mainly cultural and chemical do not provide ade…
Maize is the most important cereal crop in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and more than 300 million people depend on it for their food security and livelihood. Its production is constrained by the effects of climate change, most importantly drou…
This paper will: Review the roles of agriculture, as defined by the “classic” Johnston-Mellor paradigm, in context of the renewed emphasis on African agriculture and the changed environment in which it functions and conclude on the need f…
Agriculture is Africa’s largest economic sector, representing 15 percent of the total GDP (or more than $100 billion annually). This pivotal sector just like the broader economy is resurging from a lull of no growth that marked the 1970’s …
This paper underscores the scope and nature of needed responses to the rapidly changing food systems in Africa. The paper identifies key drivers of this change and estimates their magnitudes. The drivers identified are urbanisation, per ca…
This paper looks at two aspects of institutional development in a university setting. It looks at how the design of South – North collaboration may have a bearing on the type of partnership that evolves. And it addresses the issue of how i…
Uganda with an estimated current population of 34 million has had many approaches to agricultural extension service delivery but has not realised its potential level of production and productivity in agriculture. One key gap in agricultura…
The status of both food security and human development in Africa is affected by the performance of agriculture. Agriculture does not only determine the availability of food which is the key element for attaining food security; it is also t…
Agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa is confronted with multiple dimensions of global change, from the atmospheric to the political and economic, from environmental to the demographic and cultural.Change is continuous, and largely unpredictab…
Parboiling is an important rice processing activity that generates income for many rural women. Using the sustainable livelihoods framework to evaluate the impact of a farmer-to-farmer video on the improved rice parboiling technology, wome…
