Banana, cassava diseases attack 47 districts
The government is to fund the research into banana wilt and cassava streak disease, President Yoweri Museveni has said. He made the announcement on Wednesday while meeting with district chairpersons, extension workers, Chief Administrative Officer s, district agricultural officers, farmers and minis...
- The President of the Republic of Uganda teams up with Dr. Wilberforce Tushemereirwe, Program Leader National Banana Research Program in the fight against the deadly Banana Xanthomonas wilt
- Museveni Advises Busonga Leaders on Banana Bactieral Wilt
- First Lady advices farmers on Banana Bacterial Wilt preventions
New matooke variety empowers households
By John Kasozi
EVA Musinguzi, Winifred Ntawera and Keziah Ruharuza cannot believe that the newly-released two-inch Kiwangaazi banana variety they despised is empowering them.
The trio, who are part of the 16 contact farmers for the National Banana Research Programme under the National Agricultural Res...
welcome
Welcome to the website of the National Banana Research Program. As one of the research arms of NARO, the National Banana Research Program is mandated to carry out research on Banana in Uganda. Its goal is to enhance banana productivity and utilization through development and promotion of technologies for integrated management of weevil, black Sigatoka and nematodes.
Enhanced banana productivity will, in turn, contribute to the Uganda national goal of improving food security and household income of people living under severe poverty. The NBRP comprises a team of interdisplinary scientists and students working closely to ensure that Banana improvement is approached from a wholistic perspective. The following working groups make up the Banana research team; Breeders, Pathologists, Socioeconomists, Biotechnologists, Nematologists and Entomologists.
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Matoke Wilt
Highland bananas have beer 1 found to succum to another wilt syndrome (Matooke wilt) in Western Uganda highlands at altitudes above 1330 metres above sea level (m.a.s.1.).This wilt has since been erroneously diagonised as fusarium wilt.The disease has not been observed at lower elevations below 1330 (m.a.s.1.)
even in western Uganda,Matooke wilt is virtually limited to areas around homesteads, garbage dumping sites and animal kraals.
Matooke wilt does not spread farther than 35 metres off thehomesteads. It causes yield losses of up to 78% in bunch
weight of Enyeru cultivars. Such losses are usually morsevere closer to the homesteads where farmers expect higher
yields because of higher organic matter content.
suckers from seriously infected mats when transplanted from these sites to non infested soils out grow the disease and produce
healthy branches and healthy suckers.casual agent of this wilt syndrome is not yet known but investigation is in process by research.
The severity of this disease can be minimized by applying sanitary measures of removing infected plants and applying
properly decomposed household refuse on fields.
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