🍊 🍋🟩 The recent Citrus Festival in Soroti City brought together farmers, researchers, and development partners celebrating citrus diversity and sustainable farming in Teso. 🇺🇬 🇰🇷
Catch the full story and highlights here. 👇
news.naro.go.ug/nasarri-dire…
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UPDATE: The #SeedsOfGoldFarmClinic in Fort Portal is equipping farmers from the Tooro and Rwenzori sub-regions with practical skills in modern farming and agribusiness to boost productivity and household incomes.
Hosted by @narouganda through Rwebitaba ZARDI, the clinic covers enterprises such as coffee, fish farming, Hass avocado production, livestock management, and banana growing. #NTVNews
📸 Alex Ashaba
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Hon. Minister @FrankTumwebazek, your presence @ launch of the Coffee & cocoa Research Management Facility @NaCORIUganda reflects your commitment to promoting innovative technologies, and advancing the transformation of Uganda’s agric. sector. We are grateful for the support.
“Our Priority in Agriculture is to support the scientist” @FrankTumwebazek speaking today at the launch of the Research Management Facility at @NaCORIUganda.
Better research facilities mean stronger support for the scientists developing solutions for our farmers.
We thank the Government of Uganda, @KagutaMuseveni , Hon. Frank Tumwebaze and the Mukono District leadership for their continued support to NARO and agricultural research.
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@NARO-MUZARDI hosted DPMOs from the Lake Victoria Crescent Zonal districts for #jointplanning to strengthen DARST teams, retooling extension officers & establishing parish level demos. @narouganda accelerating #technologyuptake #agrictransformation
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🌱🤝 Our team is partnering with Reach Out Nkokonjeru to equip farmers with practical skills in dairy zero-grazing, fodder production, animal health & hygiene #buildingresilientlivelihoods for 20,000+ members, especially women and youth. 🐄🌾 #DairyFarming
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Yesterday @NAFORRI_UG: 11 Interns from @UnivBugema and @Makerere presented feedback from their Internship at the Institute, exchanging knowledge with our Scientists.
The session was followed by a staff meeting introducing new colleagues to the @NAFORRI_UG family.
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Today in a Community Meeting with RCC Mbarara and LC1s strategizing about biulding together.
The National Dairy Centre of Excellence in South Western Uganda.
Goal: 20L of milk per cow/day. More income. Shared benefits.
Our Centre. Our transformation.
#NDCoE #DairyRevolution
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Yesterday we visited a farmer in Lopeny Napak district who planted NAROSorg2. In the prolonged drought where sorghum gardens have dried #NAROSorg2 gives hope to farmers, earns a local name "Akarengit lo Nabuin".
#promote NAROSorg 2 as #foodsecurity crop for Karamoja. #NARO
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6 MILLION SEEDLINGS AVAILED:
#NationalCoffeeSeedSystem project implemented @narouganda zonal research centres has added 6million seedlings to 🇺🇬 coffee industry. @1st year meeting @EkhayaHotel
Mbarara, it was revealed that Uganda needs 68m 🍒seedlings annually to meet its target
Excited to be part of the 32nd National Agri Show in Jinja City! It’s inspiring to see cutting-edge agricultural technologies driving climate resilience, boosting farmers’ incomes, and advancing socioeconomic transformation.
#NationalAgriShow #ClimateSmartAgriculture #Innovation
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KR (Kituza Robusta) coffee varieties developed @narouganda are high-yielding, resistant to CWD, Leaf Rust & Red Blister Disease. They are fast maturing. #EmwanyiTelimba. KR yield potential: about 20kgs of fresh cherries per tree & 4kgs of clean coffee per tree. #NexGenCoffee
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#CoCoDEV Project Highlights:
Coffee & cocoa nursery operators are participating in a week-long practical retooling exercise @narouganda @rwebitaba research institute, Kabarole. Key areas of the training include; improved propagation procedures, general management and operating a coffee nursery and mother gardens as a business. The trainees are identified from key project areas across the country: Ntoroko, Lwengo, Masaka, Mayuge, Kibale, Mubende, Mbale, Lira, Ntungamo, Kamwenge, Karamoja, Gulu.
@narouganda coffee & cocoa research team @NaCORIUganda is taking lead on the training exercise.
The project is being implemented by @CoffeeUganda and @narouganda.
COCODEV - The Coffee, Cocoa Value-Chain Development Project was officially launched in 2014. The project aims at increasing availability & accessibility of high-quality foundation/starter seedlings for cocoa, arabica and robusta coffee. The project supports certified nursery operators to multiply the best seedlings & ensure that they reach farmers. Funded by @EUinUG through @CoffeeUganda is enhancing the quality of coffee and cocoa in 🇺🇬 through availing quality seedlings & postharvest handling practices. Together we are laying the ground work for a more resilient and prosperous future for Uganda's coffee and cocoa industries.
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COVAC PROJECT:
@NaCORIUganda is implementing a cocoa project entitled: Cocoa Value Chain Development Project in West Nile (COVAC). The project is a collaboration between NaCORI and Canaan Global Leadership Center and Kijami Table Ltd (Korean based registered entities). The project is aimed at increasing cocoa production and productivity in the West Nile Sub-region of Uganda. This week, the project team conducted practical trainings along the cocoa value chain. The trainings happened at NaCORI and farmer fields in Mayuge, Mukono. A community-based project extension worker from West Nile attended the training to enhance his capacity to train cocoa farmers in the region. # CocoaNewGold
