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Field sanitation critical to prevent plant diseases

Daily Monitor Saturday May 22 2021 Summary Field sanitation includes any practices that aims to prevent the spread of pathogens by removing diseased and asymptomatic infected tissue, as well as decontaminating tools, equipment and washing hands. Advertisement Most farmers think that use of pesticide is the most effective strategy for combating diseases.  But according to Dr Christopher Bukenya, Manager of technical and agribusiness services at the National Agricultural Advisory Services (Naads) that is a fallacy. According to Bukenya, sanitation is one of the effective tactics in disease management strategy in the field.  Field sanitation includes any practices that aims to prevent the spread of pathogens by removing diseased and asymptomatic infected tissue, as well as decontaminating tools, equipment and washing hands.

African CSOs boycott UN food conference

Daily Monitor Friday May 07 2021 Farmers water tomatoes at a garden in Awach Sub-county, Gulu District, last month. Some Civil Society Organisations have cancelled their participation in the United Nations Food Systems Summit. PHOTO/TOBBIAS JOLLY OWINY Summary According to them, large-scale agriculture also requires major investments in the form of machinery, grains and seeds meaning that poorer farmers in many African countries are excluded from the advantages of intensive agriculture. In March 2018, delegates under the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) converged at a high-level UN summit in Rome, Italy, to drum up support for Agroecology in Africa.  Advertisement

Central Uganda s new leadership pledges support for GM crops: We have a cardinal role to ensure food security

Ugandan farmer Alinda Sarah. Credit: Joshua Masinde/CIMMYT This article or excerpt is included in the GLP’s daily curated selection of ideologically diverse news, opinion and analysis of biotechnology innovation. Newly elected leaders from Wakiso district in central Uganda pledged support for genetically modified (GM) crops during a sensitization workshop on on-going biotech research at the National Crops Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI) on March 25, 2021. The 10 leaders including district and division councilors were led by the Woman MP-elect Wakiso District, Hon. Ethel Betty Naluyima. “We have a cardinal role as leaders to ensure food security in Uganda. I pledge support to engage relevant stakeholders to ensure political embrace of agricultural technologies like virus resistant (GMO) cassava,” Hon. Naluyima said during the workshop. The local councilors accompanying her promised to rally support at their respective levels of administration to galvanize grassroots dem

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