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Program Grants and Outputs

 

Grant Title:

Promotion and Development of Improved, High-Yielding Bean Varieties for Sustainable Food Security, Nutrition and Household Income in Uganda

Project Photos

Plates 1a & 1b. Farmers participate in staking demonstration fields in Mubende district

Plate 2a. Mr. Dan Semanda (right), A.A.O, Kassanda sub county, with one of the farmers inspect the bean crop planted in the demonstration fields 

Plate 2b. Mr. Deo Matovu, A.A.O, Kasambya sub county, together with farmers inspect the bean crop planted in a demonstration field during 2004

Plate 3a. NABE 12C, a recently released climbing bean variety on a farmer’s field in Sironko district during 2004 second growing season

Plate 3b. Reaction of RWR 1946 and RWR 2075 and check varieties (K20 and K 132) to pythium root rot after inoculation

 

Plates 3c & 3d. Multiplication of foundation seeds on-station at Kachwekano ARDC of genotypes NABE 4 and RWR 2075

Plate 3e. A wife to one of the bean grain traders, in Kabale displays their harvest of genotype RWR 2075

 

Plate 4a

Plate 4a

Plate 4c

Plates 4a, 4b, 4c. Farmers who have accessed bean seed through participating in demonstration fields  and the bean seed loan scheme in Sironko district

Plate 5a

Plate 5b

Plates 5a, 5b, 5d. Farmers who have accessed bean seed through participatory variety trials and   bean seed loan schemes in Kabale district

Plate 5d. Bean seed loan schemes in Kabale district

Plate 6

Mrs. Mwenderehe Marble (from Kabale district), a beneficiary of a genotype selected from PVS trials: Pictured above is her mud house roofed with iron sheets and also doors and windows bought after selling genotype RWR 2075

Plate7

M/s Caudia (from Kabale district), through sales of NABE 12C has been able to meet her basic needs including school fees for her children: in picture is one of the sheep and it’s young one she acquired after the bean sales of NABE 12C

 

 

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