Virus-resistant cassava for Western Uganda farmers
Uganda
Agriculture, CommunityKI
KITABU INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
Uganda
NonprofitKitabu Integrated Development Association is a non-profit community based organisation helping rural and marginalised women and girls to realise their rights and exercise them, we ensure their full participation in leadership and decision making We work to contribute to Sustainable Development goal 5 of achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls We work to end all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls, eliminating child marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM) and all other harmful practices, healthy, improved agricultural methods, water and sanitation and economic empowerment. our mission To inspire gender equality, end violence and promote health rights of the most isolated vulnerable and marginalized rural women and girl our vision A healthy and poverty free community where women and girls meet their needs and exercise their rights with ease
Project story
Roots for the soils { growing improved cultivar for Stronger Harvest}
The project will cover 120 small/medium scale women farmers to enhance food security and and healthy soils. The project will support assistance in procuring the new high yielding cassava cultivars developed through research of The Uganda National Crops Resources Research Institute (NCRRI) and Makerere University that has resulted in high yields and virus resistant cassava varieties in the Eastern Uganda and with this project it will be a chance of Western Uganda particularly Kasese where cassava floor mixed with boiling water make up ugali or bundu which is the staple food for Bukonzo and the variety they have has been with danger to life where it has been causing stomach poisoning and cannot be cooked as food like katogo, sombe and it takes long to mature and yield less as in tuber are always 1 to 3 and in small size this forces farmers to apply dangerous chemicals to soil and affect the healthy of the environment with improved cultivars there will be no chemical application.
The project will provide 120 women farmers with cassava brown streak disease resistant cultivars, cultivating and harvesting mechanized equipment to increase on the ploughing process and train the women in the right spacing of cultivars to have many tubers on each cultivars.
Women farmers will learn more effective practices of cassava cultivation to ensure significant yield of the crop such that it does not make it hard for them to plant the new variety
There will be setting up of women farmer field classes to provide services of professional agronomists having experience with breeding and genomic selection for virus resistant and high yielding cassava and help create market.
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Team
Virus-resistant cassava for Western Uganda farmers
Uganda
Agriculture, CommunityKI
KITABU INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION
Uganda
NonprofitKitabu Integrated Development Association is a non-profit community based organisation helping rural and marginalised women and girls to realise their rights and exercise them, we ensure their full participation in leadership and decision making We work to contribute to Sustainable Development goal 5 of achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls We work to end all forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls, eliminating child marriage, female genital mutilation (FGM) and all other harmful practices, healthy, improved agricultural methods, water and sanitation and economic empowerment. our mission To inspire gender equality, end violence and promote health rights of the most isolated vulnerable and marginalized rural women and girl our vision A healthy and poverty free community where women and girls meet their needs and exercise their rights with ease
Project story
Roots for the soils { growing improved cultivar for Stronger Harvest}
The project will cover 120 small/medium scale women farmers to enhance food security and and healthy soils. The project will support assistance in procuring the new high yielding cassava cultivars developed through research of The Uganda National Crops Resources Research Institute (NCRRI) and Makerere University that has resulted in high yields and virus resistant cassava varieties in the Eastern Uganda and with this project it will be a chance of Western Uganda particularly Kasese where cassava floor mixed with boiling water make up ugali or bundu which is the staple food for Bukonzo and the variety they have has been with danger to life where it has been causing stomach poisoning and cannot be cooked as food like katogo, sombe and it takes long to mature and yield less as in tuber are always 1 to 3 and in small size this forces farmers to apply dangerous chemicals to soil and affect the healthy of the environment with improved cultivars there will be no chemical application.
The project will provide 120 women farmers with cassava brown streak disease resistant cultivars, cultivating and harvesting mechanized equipment to increase on the ploughing process and train the women in the right spacing of cultivars to have many tubers on each cultivars.
Women farmers will learn more effective practices of cassava cultivation to ensure significant yield of the crop such that it does not make it hard for them to plant the new variety
There will be setting up of women farmer field classes to provide services of professional agronomists having experience with breeding and genomic selection for virus resistant and high yielding cassava and help create market.
Project updates
Team
Location
Uganda