Author Archives: Submitted by Catherine Njuguna

Zanzibar president lauds IITA’s research efforts to improve live...

April 9, 2013 no comments

Zanzibar president lauds IITA’s research efforts to improve livelihoods of small-holder farmers Dar es Salaam, 08 April 2013. His Excellency Dr Ali Mohamed Shein, the President of the Revolutio...

Tanzania launches its chapter of AfDB funded project to boost cassava ...

April 9, 2013 no comments

Dar es Salaam –  Key stakeholders in the cassava and rice sub-sector in Tanzania concluded a two-day meeting in Zanzibar, from 04 – 05 April 2013, to officially launch and plan for the im...

Project makes significant progress to save maize from the “viole...

March 25, 2013 no comments

Dar es Salaam-March 25, 2013. Thousands of farmers in western Kenya are successfully battling the invasion in their farms by a deadly parasitic weed called Striga, dubbed the violet vampire because o...

Key international forum on plant viral diseases kicks off today in Aru...

January 28, 2013 no comments

28 January 2013, Arusha, Tanzania—The 12th International Plant Virus Epidemiology (IPVE) symposium with the theme “Evolution, Ecology and Control of Plant Viruses,” started today, bringing together o...

Africa to host global conference on plant viral disease in 2013…meetin...

December 19, 2012 no comments

Scientists from across the world will gather in Arusha, Tanzania, for the 12th International Plant Virus Epidemiology (IPVE) symposium between January 28 and 1 February 2013. The meeting will provide...

Banana can protect coffee from the effects of climate change

December 11, 2012 1 comment

Dar es Salaam – 11 December 2012.- Growing coffee and banana together not only generates more income for small-holder farmers, compared to growing either crop alone, but it can also help coffee produ...

Experts chart strategic roadmap to boost productivity of smallholder m...

October 9, 2012 no comments

ARUSHA, TANZANIA – Mixed-farming smallholder growers in East and Southern Africa are slated to see a boost in their production and productivity resulting from a strategy that will see agricultural ex...

Barren soils threaten future of farming in the Great Lakes region says...

July 16, 2012 no comments

Dar es Salaam –  Most of the soils in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa are poor with very little fertility left in them and what is there is mostly due to the organic matter in the tops...

Making food safe: Two projects to combat mycotoxin contamination in Ta...

April 26, 2012 no comments

The fight to control contamination of key staple foods in Africa by mycotoxins – poisonous chemicals secreted by naturally occurring fungi which attack crops in the field and during storage, ma...

Plantain gains defense against devastating microscopic worms

April 5, 2012 1 comment

For the first time, scientists have built into plantain a viable defense against microscopic worms – called nematodes – that infests the plant’s roots, making them easily topple over and significantl...

Use of fertilizer and better farming methods can double Uganda’s coffe...

November 19, 2011 1 comment

Dar es Salaam, The use of inorganic fertilizers and improved farming practices by small-holder farmers can significantly increase, and even double, coffee production in Uganda -the world’s eleventh l...

IITA to intensify fight against deadly cassava disease in sub-Saharan ...

January 15, 2010 no comments

Dar es Salaam (IITA) – The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and its partners the Agricultural Research Institute (ARI), Tanzania, and the National Agricultural Research Or...