A worker prepares Nabe 15 seeds for packing, in the Gulu district of northern Uganda. Credit: Georgina Smith/CIAT This article or excerpt is included in the GLP’s daily curated selection of ideologically diverse news, opinion and analysis of biotechnology innovation. 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 has achieved some success and has come up with crop varieties that are either tolerant or resistant to such challenges as drought stress and disease.