Virus-resistant cassava for Western Uganda farmers

Roots for the soils { growing improved cultivar for Stronger Harvest}

The project will cover 120 small/medium scale women farmers to enhance food security and and healthy soils. The project will support assistance in procuring the new high yielding cassava cultivars developed through research of The Uganda National Crops Resources Research Institute (NCRRI) and Makerere University that has resulted in high yields and virus resistant cassava varieties in the Eastern Uganda and with this project it will be a chance of  Western Uganda particularly Kasese where cassava floor mixed with boiling water make up ugali or bundu which is the staple food for Bukonzo and the variety they have has been with danger to life where it has been causing stomach poisoning and cannot be cooked as food like katogo, sombe and it takes long to mature and yield less as in tuber are always 1 to 3 and in small size this forces farmers to apply dangerous chemicals to soil and affect the healthy of the environment with improved cultivars there will be no chemical application.

The project will provide 120 women farmers with cassava brown streak disease resistant cultivars, cultivating and harvesting mechanized equipment to increase on the ploughing process and train the women in the right spacing of cultivars to have many tubers on each cultivars.

Women farmers will learn more effective practices of cassava cultivation to ensure significant yield of the crop such that it does not make it hard for them to plant the new variety

There will be setting up of women farmer field classes to provide services of professional agronomists having experience with breeding and genomic selection for virus resistant and high yielding cassava and help create market.