SOURCE: Fred Searle, Fruitnet One country that has just embarked on its own Hass avocado journey is Uganda – and hopes are high that the East African nation can one day become a major player in exports to Europe and beyond. Producers will be looking to emulate the success ofContinue Reading
SOURCE: Juliet Waiswa and Violet Nabatanzi The latest research by the National Agricultural Research Organization (NARO-Mak) has revealed that banana bunchy top virus which was first reported in Arua district is likely to affect West Nile region. Presenting the study findings at Golden Trip hotel during a meeting on plantContinue Reading
SOURCE: Lominda Afedraru, Monitor Tagging products with barcodes for easy price retrieval in supermarkets is a regular practice. But beyond supermarkets, barcodes can be employed across a whole spectrum of settings, including by scientists in their research. The accelerated breeding better banana project has developed and deployed a fully operationalContinue Reading
SOURCE: DW In East Africa and Nigeria, avocado farmers want to enter the insatiable export market. Environmental concerns cast a shadow over the crop in other parts of the world. What will African farmers do differently? Baker Ssengendo’s vision for the future of Uganda starts with an avocado seedling. “TheContinue Reading
Hannington Abaasa, a resident of Kisalosalo zone in Kyebando, a suburb of Kampala says that it takes patience and endurance to survive in the business. He wakes up very early in the morning and goes to different markets in Kampala city where he usually buys pineapples. At the markets, he buys pineapples at different prices depending on the size and appearance.Continue Reading
Passion fruit, a climbing vine, is a versatile crop whose demand is growing in both export and domestic markets.Continue Reading
Mustafa has been growing avocados since 2017 after switching from sugarcane because avocado farming is profitable yet it requires minimal maintenance.Continue Reading
SOURCE: Dispatch A drastic decline in prices of Matooke has frustrated farmers from parts of Ankole, one of the biggest producers of Matooke, both a cash and food crop. Matooke production has over the years transformed livelihoods across the region, with more people depending on the food crop to earnContinue Reading
Source: URN, The Independent Pineapple farmers in Masaka district are stuck with their farm produces as their export market shrinks. The most affected are farmers in the sub-counties of Kyannamukaaka, Kyesiiga and Buwunga who are struggling to find market for their ripe pineapples with some already rotting in the plantations.Continue Reading
Uganda is the second largest producer of bananas after India with about 9 million tonnes produced annually. All this production creates tonnes of waste in form of stems and stocks. These are returned back to gardens to be used as fertilisers or mulching materials. But the stems and stocksContinue Reading