“Many people still live that kind of life. I feel challenged as a minister of ICT. We need to transform this so that they can be part of the industrial revolution because they are the people who.
10 Ugandan scientists who developed anti-tick vaccine
Thursday April 15 2021
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ECF is one of the deadly tick-borne diseases which is a huge economic threat to farmers with herds of exotic breeds, cross-breeds and increasingly on local breeds raised in a tick-free environment.
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A team of scientists from Makerere University who developed the anti-tick vaccine called ticvac-u have been unveiled.
Dr Margaret Saimo-Kahwa, the lead developer of the vaccine, on Tuesday said the development started in 2005 with a seed grant from the Dutch Research Council, but the government of Uganda through the Presidential Initiative on Science and Technology took interest and continued providing financial support to date.
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Daily Monitor
Tuesday December 15 2020
Farmers look on as a coffee expert explains the agronomy of the crop. Farmers in Luweero are now aiming at boosting production. (Representational picture). PHOTO/RACHEL MABALA.
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The use of lead farmers that have model coffee gardens is one of the different strategies that the district has deployed to encourage good farming practices.
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Stakeholders in the coffee industry have set a five-year target for individual farmers to produce six kilogrammes per plant to boost incomes.
The average estimates for coffee production per plant has, however, stagnated between 1.5 to two kilogrammes for the past three years.