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Dr Adesina was feted for supporting scientists and researchers at the University’s Food Technology Department, helping to innovate in the production of shelf-stable flour produced from the national staple, the bananas, which could be turned into mashed banana meal known locally as matoke. The AfDB President recalled his work in Uganda as the Associate Director of the Rockefeller Foundation when he engaged the University faculty members in undertaking research on food technologies. The work done on the banana tissue culture, which was geared towards making the banana plantations in Uganda much more economically productive and disease-free, also earned Dr Adesina accolades. The good doctor said farmers across Uganda were supported to access the tissue-cultured bananas through a financing programme which he helped to set up. The programme was scaled up by the Centenary Rural Development Bank, and out of all the farmers who received their loans, none defaulted on their payments.

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