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Samuel. Sentumbwe

Improved production technologies have been developed and adopted by some farmers in the country. These technologies were developed with the aim of improving farmer’s welfare but its known that households get income from sources other than …

RUF-35545 2007 CC BY 4.0 30 Sep 2015

The Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) and NWO-WOTRO Science for Global Development in partnership with the Platform for African European Partnership on Agricultural Research for Development (PAEPARD), the Regional Universi…

RUF-35542 2015 CC BY 4.0 30 Sep 2015

David Nanfumba

Malaria is one of the water related diseases that is believed to reduce the available labour in agriculture especially in the paddy rice farming systems which serve as breeding grounds. The breeding habitats, their bio-physical properties …

RUF-35541 2008 CC BY 4.0 30 Sep 2015

Innocent. Ndyetabula

Cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and sweet potato virus disease (SPVD) are among the most important cassava and sweet potato limitations in Tanzania. Field studies were conducted at four locations in Kagera Region in northwestern Tanzania to i…

RUF-35540 2004 CC BY 4.0 30 Sep 2015

Godfrey. Ssendege

This study was conducted to enhance breeding for resistance to soybean rust, the greatest obstacle to soybean production in Uganda. To undertake this assignment, 91 exotic soybean accessions and 39 advanced lines available from the Nationa…

RUF-35538 2015 CC BY 4.0 30 Sep 2015

R. Mating

Agricultural activities; grazing and cropping are thought to be the major contributors to non-point wetland pollution and other land degradation forms in the highlands and foothills while industrial effluents and domestic waste disposal ar…

RUF-35534 2012 CC BY 4.0 30 Sep 2015

Selemani Chamdimba Chimwemwe

This study was conducted in Zomba district of Southern Malawi to evaluate the profitability of mixed tree intercropping and relay cropping agroforestry technologies. Thondwe, Malosa and Dzaone Extension Planning Areas of the district agric…

RUF-35533 2007 CC BY 4.0 30 Sep 2015

T. Nkheloane

There is sparse information on the wetlands of Lesotho in terms of their characteristics, climate change impacts, management and coverage and there is a growing concern on high levels of degradation observed in these ecosystems. Thus the m…

RUF-35532 2012 CC BY 4.0 30 Sep 2015

G.A. Beyihayo

Two growth trials involving crossbred (Large white x Landrace) starter pigs were conducted to compare feed intake, growth rate, feed conversion efficiency and cost of feeding malted (MTD), fermented (FTD), fermented maize grain after malti…

RUF-35528 2014 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

S. Munialo

Decreasing land holdings among smallholder farmers in Vihiga and Jinja have resulted in intensive land utilization. This has in turn led to low soil fertility level which has resulted in decline in the abundance and distribution of phyto-d…

RUF-35527 2013 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

S. Kiconco

Assessing soil fertility status is one way of evaluating sustainability of land use and management activities. There are basically two methods of assessing soil fertility: the laboratory method and use of indigenous knowledge. One way of u…

RUF-35526 2014 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

S.W. Munyiri

In sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), maize (Zea mays L.) is the staple food for about 50% of the population. Lepidoptera stem borers pause major threats to sustained food sufficiency in SSA where they cause annual yield losses of 15% and particula…

RUF-35525 2014 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

M.R. Nabbika

Sweet potato weevil (Cylas puncticollis) Boheman is a serious pest throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. The pest causes up to 28% production losses annually in Uganda. Due to difficulties to implement pest management measures and the low level o…

RUF-35524 2014 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

Jane Ndegi Mugambi

Stemborers cause 50% yield losses in cereal crops including maize, sorghum and sugarcane. In Kenya, stemborers include Busseola fusca, B. phaia, Sesamia calamistis, Eldana saccharina, Chilo orichalcociliellus and C. partellus. Control opti…

RUF-35523 2010 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

P. Paparu

The use of mutualistic fungal endophytes to control the banana weevil (Cosmopolites sordidus) and banana parasitic nematodes (Radopholus similis, Pratylenchus goodei and Helicotylenchus multicinctus) is currently being investigated at the …

RUF-35522 2005 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

Micheline Inamahoro

Radopholus similis (and others nematodes) cause significant damage on banana wherever are grown worldwide. Genetic resistance to nematodes provides a more sustainable management option in resource poor farming systems. New evidence indicat…

RUF-35519 2011 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

RUF-35517 2015 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

Patrick. Musinguzi

The highlands of southwestern Uganda account for the bulk of field pea ( Pisum sativum L.) produced and consumed in the country. The crop fetches a stable price, which is as high as that of beef, but it has remained outside the mainstream …

RUF-35515 2007 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

Luka Atwok Opio Awata

Maize foliar diseases are the most important impediments to increased maize production in Uganda. The main objectives of the studies reported in this thesis were (i) to characterise inbred lines for resistance to Turcicum leaf blight and m…

RUF-35514 2012 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

Geofrey. Kawube

The production of rice and cowpea in Uganda is increasing in acreage rather than productivity. This is attributed to a number of factors, mainly seed-borne diseases. The farmers in Uganda mainly use farm saved seeds for planting. These see…

RUF-35511 2005 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

Okello Samuel Arum

Malaria is one of the public health problems facing people in many parts of Kenya including semi-arid areas. It is caused by an infectious bite of female Anopheles mosquitoes. To effectively implement malaria control program, the knowledge…

RUF-35509 2011 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

Frances. Nakakawa

This study focused on examining the allocation of farm resources by farmers engaged in cowpea production and developing optimal farm plans for cowpea production systems in Eastern Uganda. Earlier studies revealed that cowpea yields are bel…

RUF-35508 2007 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

Gerard. Oballim

Maize is the most important cereal in Uganda and many other countries of Sub-Saharan Africa. It is the main source of basal energy for humans, livestock and poultry. Maize is however deficient in two essential amino acids, lysine and trypt…

RUF-35504 2009 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

A. Cyamweshi Rusanganwa

In Sub-Saharan Africa, common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) is a food security and income sourcing crop as well as a contributor to soil fertility improvement through biological nitrogen fixation. In Uganda, bean production is widespread, w…

RUF-35503 2011 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

Joy Nakitandwe

Genetic linkage maps were constructed for two parental genotypes of Solanum caripense. The maps consist of 240 molecular markers covering genetic distances of 1,080 cM (maternal) and 779 cM (paternal). These maps are a big milestone toward…

RUF-35502 2007 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015