Daily Monitor
Saturday April 03 2021
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Our long delay to take advantage of technologies aimed at improvements proven to overcome farming challenges such as drought stress, pest and disease epidemics, and malnutrition, could be the major drawback crippling the progress towards national economic development.
Uganda is merely watching as other countries embrace technologies such as biotechnology that are transforming agriculture and earning them huge economic benefits.
Our government through the National Agricultural Research Organisation (Naro) is conducting research aimed at overcoming pests and diseases that are wiping out crops such as banana, cassava, sweet potato, Irish potato among others.
Naro is also doing research on some crops to overcome drought stress and malnutrition through biotechnology. Our cotton production lags behind due to pests that have been overcome in other countries including neighbouring Kenya which is already growing Bt cotton
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Daily Monitor
Thursday February 18 2021
Deputy Speaker Jacob Oulanyah (left) and Speaker Rebecca Kadaga chairing plenary sessions of Parliament. Photo/ David Lubowa
Summary
The deputy Secretary General of the ruling party, Mr Richard Todwong, has asked the party’s Central Executive Committee to rein in and sort out the standoff before the polls. The top party organ [CEC] where both of them sit is better placed to handle the issues and I nurse no doubt that all will be well sooner than later,” Jacob Oboth-Oboth, (West Budama South), Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee chairperson.
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As the battle for the Speaker of 11th Parliament boils behind the scenes, Daily Monitor digs into the performance of the frontrunners in the race for the third highest office in the country.