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R. Mulebeke

Water flow and storage within the root zone constrains water availability and use in rain-fed crop production, especially in the dryland cropping systems, where farmers are resource-strained and are not motivated to practice soil and water…

RUF-35771 2011 CC BY 4.0 19 Nov 2015

Innocent. Kirungi

RUF-35723 2014 CC BY 4.0 10 Nov 2015

Y. Bamutaze · A. Egeru · L. MacOpiyo · M.G.J. Majaliwa +3 more

Low-input pastoral production systems provide up to 90 % of livestock and livestock products consumed in Uganda. However, pastoral communities are increasingly faced with the challenge of meeting their livestock needs in terms of forage, a…

RUF-35671 2015 CC BY 4.0 15 Oct 2015

A. Kayitesi · D.R. Kugonza · H. Mulindwa · C. Nakkazi +1 more

This study evaluated the performance of local chickens on three diets and two feeding systems under on-farm conditions. The diets used were formulated from local feedstuffs that had been identified in a baseline survey and analyzed for che…

RUF-35591 2015 CC BY 4.0 6 Oct 2015

A. Egeru · P. Isubikalu · M.G.J. Majaliwa · P. Mukwaya +1 more

Drylands occupy 44% of Uganda’s land surface and provide livelihood to a cross-section of both rural and urban folks. However in the face of population pressure, drylands are increasingly in the path of conversion and degradation. This stu…

RUF-35578 2010 CC BY 4.0 6 Oct 2015

A. BomBom · P. Gibson · P. Okori · P. Rubaihayo

Specialty maize lines possessing important endosperm genes waxy and/or opaque-2 enhance processing and nutritional qualities of the grain. However, production and utilization of specialty maize varieties for food, feeds and various industr…

RUF-35576 2012 CC BY 4.0 6 Oct 2015

John Adriko

Cassava Mosaic Disease (CMD) caused by whitefly-transmitted cassava mosaic geminiviruses has been a major constraint to cassava production in Uganda since 1988 when a particularly severe epidemic of the disease was first reported. The intr…

RUF-35569 2005 CC BY 4.0 1 Oct 2015

Fulgence Niyongabo

The main objective of this study were: 1) to determine the pathogenicity of rice blast isolates collected in three key rice producing districts of Uganda on standard host differentials, 2) to estimate the heritability, mode of gene action …

RUF-35555 2012 CC BY 4.0 30 Sep 2015

Patience Byaruhanga

Sweet potato research in Uganda has led to development and release of many varieties by the National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCCRI) of the National Agricultural Research Organsation (NARO). The researchers have used three majo…

RUF-35550 2008 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

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

J.M.K. Mulema

Potato is an important source of food and income in the highlands of East Africa. Identification of superior genotypes for improved agronomic characteristics will enhance tuber yield. Seven promising clones from population B potato selecti…

RUF-35498 2007 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

Christopher Oyeng

Sweet potato is ranked as the third most important food staple in Uganda after cassava and banana. However, Alternaria leaf spot and stem blight and sweet potato virus disease (SPVD) are reportedly causing considerable yield reduction on t…

RUF-35494 2002 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

Julius Mukalazi

In Uganda, a major pathogen genus causing severe phaseolus bean root rot, particularly in South western, is Pythium. But there is no information on the different pythium species associated with bean root rots nor about impact of use of org…

RUF-35492 2004 CC BY 4.0 29 Sep 2015

Ajibo Sarah Ayo

Consumption of fast-foods in Uganda is becoming an increasingly important component of the food market as the working class choose to dine out rather than prepare meals at home. Despite the importance of the fast-food sector, limited attem…

RUF-35483 2011 CC BY 4.0 28 Sep 2015

Joseph. Mudiope

Yam (Dioscorea spp.) is a native tuber crop in Uganda that is considered a good candidate for overcoming food deficiencies in the famine stricken country. Despite its glory, nematodes have been a major hindrance to increased and sustainabl…

RUF-35479 2005 CC BY 4.0 28 Sep 2015

Joy Nakitandwe

The low average potato (solanum tuberosum L.) yields of only 7 Mt/ha and 13Mt/ha on farmers' fields in Uganda and Africa, respectively compared to 25 Mt/ha at Kalengyere Research station in Uganda have been attributed to, among other facto…

RUF-35476 2003 CC BY 4.0 28 Sep 2015

Bernard Bonton Obaa

The government of Uganda (GOU), under the Plan to Modernize Agriculture (PMA), is gradually phasing out the traditional public extension system in favour of a a private extension system. The private extension service provision is being coo…

RUF-35472 2004 CC BY 4.0 28 Sep 2015

Gonahasa Zephania. Mukalere

Two hundred lines of Vigna unguiculate (L) Walp. Were planted in three replicates and data on the relative incidence and severity of Synchytrium dolichi (cooke) Arth. On each line was collected at a 14 day interval, from day 40 to day 60 a…

RUF-35467 1989 CC BY 4.0 28 Sep 2015

Christopher Bukenya

A lot of research has been done on African cassava mosaic virus (ACMV) and its control. Attention now is being turned on the adoption of the currently recommended ACMV control methods by farmers. The purpose of the study was to determine a…

RUF-35466 1994 CC BY 4.0 28 Sep 2015

Mansoor. Simbwa-Bunnya

The objective of this project was to investigate the biology, epidemiology and control of brown spot disease of sugarcane caused by Cercospora longipies so as to provide basic information which would enable cane breeders to recognize culti…

RUF-35462 1976 CC BY 4.0 28 Sep 2015

Moses Simwogerere

A number of constraints exists in cassava production in Uganda. These include diseases, pests, weeds and socio-economic factors. The most serious disease problem being the African cassava mosaic disease (ACMV). This is not a new disease in…

RUF-35460 1994 CC BY 4.0 28 Sep 2015

Ekwamu Adipala

During the period 1976-1978 a study of finger millet diseases was undertaken at the university farm Kabanyolo. It was found that the most important diseases were blast, cylindrosporium leaf spot, tar spot, sclerotium wilt and bacterial bli…

RUF-35455 1980 CC BY 4.0 28 Sep 2015

Samson Lukare. Kwaje

Earlier observations on introduced varieties showed that sorghum downy mildew (SDM) could be a destructive disease of sorghum in Uganda. Hence a study was undertaken to screen number of locally grown sorghums, and these introduced varietie…

RUF-35454 1975 CC BY 4.0 25 Sep 2015

Fred. Ssango

Northern leaf light of maize, incited by the fungus Exserohilum turcicum (Pass) Leonard and Suggs, is a devastating disease of maize in all maize growing regions of Uganda. Variation in pathogen firness, level of resistance to E.turcicum o…

RUF-35451 1994 CC BY 4.0 25 Sep 2015