Project planning and review meeting held in Soroti, Uganda
Production of finger millet, the main cereal food staple in the Eastern and Northern zones of Uganda, is constrained by low productivity, blast disease and use of improper management practices. In 2010, under the ICRISAT-HOPE project, ICRISAT and partners – National Semi-Arid Resources Research Institute …
Project management team meets in Zanzibar, Tanzania
The HOPE project held its 5th Project Management Team (PMT) meeting on 9-10 March in Zanzibar, Tanzania, to review the project’s progress across the six objectives and the recommendation of the Addis Ababa meeting. The meeting was chaired and facilitated by Project Coordinator Dr. George …
Sorghum field day: Production set to perk up in Rombo District
It all began when Mr Michael Shirima, owner of Precision Air (a regional airline company in Tanzania), on hearing about the improved Macia sorghum being promoted by the ICRISAT-HOPE project, bought 30 kg ofseed from Suba-Agro, a private seed company in Tanzania. He planted it …
Linking farmers to markets: Facilitating sorghum trade on behalf of farmers in Tanzania
Highlighting the power of markets to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers, ICRISATHOPE project partners in Tanzania negotiated a forward contract agreement for the purchase and supply of 200 tons of sorghum grain between the Kwamtoro Farmers’ Sacco and the Dunia Trust Ltd, a …
When farmers are partners in research & technology dissemination
Meet David Chiroto, a finger millet farmer from Rift Valley province in Kenya. David has been growing finger millet as a staple food crop for the last 30 years. In his homestead, finger millet is used to make porridge and ugali to feed his family. …