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2007-05-21 | permalink
USAID to fund HT and Bt cotton trials in Uganda
The United States Agency for International Development (Usaid) is to inject $160,000 (about Shs272 million) on pest resistant cotton trials.
Through its Agricultural Productivity Enhancement Programme (APEP), Usaid will facilitate the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) to undertake trials on the pest cotton referred to as Bt cotton. [...] Mr Arinaitwe said one will be resistance to herbicide and the other will be resistance to the cotton pest called bollworms.
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2007-05-21 | permalink
USAID to fund HT and Bt cotton trials in Uganda
The United States Agency for International Development (Usaid) is to inject $160,000 (about Shs272 million) on pest resistant cotton trials.
Through its Agricultural Productivity Enhancement Programme (APEP), Usaid will facilitate the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) to undertake trials on the pest cotton referred to as Bt cotton. [...] Mr Arinaitwe said one will be resistance to herbicide and the other will be resistance to the cotton pest called bollworms.
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