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IITA DG Nteranya Sanginga meeting with HE Dr Ali Mohamed Shein at State House in Zanzibar

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...
Cassava

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...
See how short my usual maize variety is from Striga -  George Martin Migori

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...
IPVE International Forum

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...
Tanzanian Farmers

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...
Plantation

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...
Tanzanian Farmers

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 Soil

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...
Food safety

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

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...
Farmer - Senabulya - coffee banana

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 - Roots and Tubers Systems

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...

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