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Nile Post published her remarks on October 25. The expo, organised with the Eastern Africa Grain Council and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), closed the previous day at IITA’s Sendusu station in Wakiso District.","Asio said IITA and the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) developed maize, millet and sorghum varieties tested to yield with little rain or to mature early, and that the ministry was promoting them under its climate-smart agriculture programme. She said many had been given to Karamoja because they mature quickly and need little water. The report did not identify varieties or trial yields; her remarks describe the programme’s direction rather than measured harvest results.","Asio said the ministry was developing a national irrigation project that could be rolled out if the Ministry of Finance provides funding. That remains a conditional plan. Earlier small-scale equipment schemes split irrigation-equipment costs: farmers paid 20% and government 80%. The ministry acknowledged that the schemes had not reached every district. Separately, the World Bank-funded Uganda Climate Smart project was supplying irrigation systems to farmers free of charge, she said.","She said Uganda’s seed and plant-variety laws are administered through the Uganda National Seed Certification Service. One route requires variety certification; another permits quality-declared seed, a less stringent system in which farmers select seed based on traits such as disease resistance and yield. Farmers could also continue using older varieties they had found resilient to pests, disease and drought.","Tractors and other machinery remained unaffordable for many small-scale farmers, Asio said, so the ministry encouraged groups to share equipment. Officials were asking lenders to offer adequate grace periods, while growers still needed to invest in fertiliser, pesticides and quality seed. She called 12% interest high and said rates were set by lenders and market conditions. Development partners’ collateral and input suppliers’ post-harvest repayment arrangements had helped some farmers obtain credit.","IITA representative George Mahuku said the institute’s Uganda work includes breeding, biochar, biodiversity, soil fertility and irrigation, with a focus on cassava, banana and soybean and joint maize work with NARO. He said their Aflasafe biological-control product against aflatoxin had been handed to NARO Holdings for commercialisation. IITA banana breeder Violet Akech said the programme adds pest, disease and drought tolerance to familiar local varieties such as Nakitembe and Mpologoma, while conserving local varieties in field and laboratory collections."],"sections":[]},"corrections":[],"country":"UG","data":{"blocks":[{"columns":[{"key":"category","label":{"ar":"الفئة","de":"Kategorie","en":"Category","es":"Categoría","fr":"Catégorie","pt":"Categoria","tr":"Kategori"},"language":"en","type":"text"},{"key":"share_percent","label":{"ar":"نسبة التكلفة المشمولة","de":"Anteil der abgedeckten Kosten","en":"Share of covered cost","es":"Proporción del costo cubierto","fr":"Part du coût couvert","pt":"Parcela do custo coberto","tr":"Kapsanan maliyet oranı"},"type":"number","unit":"percent"}],"description":{"ar":"حصص التكلفة في برامج سابقة صغيرة النطاق لمعدات الري، بحسب مسؤولة الزراعة ماري تيدي أسيو.","de":"Kostenanteile früherer kleiner Bewässerungsausrüstungsprogramme laut der Landwirtschaftsbeamtin Mary Teddy Asio.","en":"Cost shares for earlier small-scale irrigation-equipment schemes as reported by agriculture official Mary Teddy Asio.","es":"Proporciones del coste de programas anteriores de equipos de riego a pequeña escala, según la funcionaria agrícola Mary Teddy Asio.","fr":"Parts du coût d’anciens programmes d’équipements d’irrigation à petite échelle, selon la responsable agricole Mary Teddy Asio.","pt":"Parcelas do custo de programas anteriores de equipamentos de irrigação de pequena escala, conforme a autoridade agrícola Mary Teddy Asio.","tr":"Tarım yetkilisi Mary Teddy Asio’nun daha önceki küçük ölçekli sulama ekipmanı programları için bildirdiği maliyet payları."},"id":"uganda-irrigation-equipment-cost-share","methodology":{"ar":"يسجل الجدول تقاسم التكلفة الذي وصفته أسيو لبرامج سابقة صغيرة النطاق لمعدات الري: دفع المزارعون 20% وغطت الحكومة 80% من تكلفة المعدات. وتنطبق النسب على تلك البرامج السابقة لا على مشروع الري الوطني المقترح.","de":"Die Tabelle zeigt die von Asio beschriebene Kostenaufteilung früherer kleiner Bewässerungsausrüstungsprogramme: Landwirte zahlten 20 %, der Staat übernahm 80 % der Ausrüstungskosten. Die Anteile beziehen sich auf diese früheren Programme, nicht auf das geplante nationale Bewässerungsprojekt.","en":"This table records the cost split Asio described for earlier small-scale irrigation-equipment schemes: farmers paid 20% and government covered 80% of equipment costs. The shares refer to those earlier schemes, not the proposed national irrigation project.","es":"La tabla registra el reparto de costes que Asio describió para anteriores programas de equipos de riego a pequeña escala: los agricultores pagaban el 20% y el Gobierno cubría el 80% del coste del equipo. Las proporciones corresponden a esos programas anteriores, no al proyecto nacional propuesto.","fr":"Le tableau reprend la répartition des coûts décrite par Asio pour d’anciens programmes d’équipement d’irrigation à petite échelle : les agriculteurs payaient 20 % et l’État couvrait 80 % du coût des équipements. Ces parts concernent ces anciens programmes, pas le projet national proposé.","pt":"A tabela registra a divisão de custos descrita por Asio para programas anteriores de equipamentos de irrigação em pequena escala: os agricultores pagavam 20% e o governo cobria 80% do custo dos equipamentos. As parcelas referem-se àqueles programas anteriores, não ao projeto nacional proposto.","tr":"Bu tablo, Mary Teddy Asio’nun önceki küçük ölçekli sulama ekipmanı programları için verdiği maliyet paylaşımını gösterir. Çiftçilerin ekipman maliyetinin %20’sini, hükümetin %80’ini karşıladığını söyledi. Oranlar yeni ulusal sulama projesine değil, geçmiş programlara aittir."},"rowTranslations":[{"category":{"ar":"المزارعون","de":"Landwirte","en":"Farmers","es":"Agricultores","fr":"Agriculteurs","pt":"Agricultores","tr":"Çiftçiler"}},{"category":{"ar":"الحكومة","de":"Staat","en":"Government","es":"Gobierno","fr":"État","pt":"Governo","tr":"Hükümet"}}],"rows":[{"category":"Farmers","share_percent":20},{"category":"Government","share_percent":80}],"sourceUrls":["https://nilepost.co.ug/agriculture/381243/govt-turns-to-quick-maturing-seed-irrigation-as-climate-squeezes-farmers"],"title":{"ar":"تقاسم تكلفة المعدات في برامج الري الأوغندية الصغيرة السابقة","de":"Kostenanteile für Ausrüstung in früheren kleinen Bewässerungsprogrammen Ugandas","en":"Equipment cost shares in earlier Ugandan small-scale irrigation schemes","es":"Reparto del coste de equipos en anteriores programas ugandeses de riego a pequeña escala","fr":"Répartition du coût des équipements dans d’anciens programmes ougandais 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Nile Post published her remarks on October 25. The expo, organised with the Eastern Africa Grain Council and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), closed the previous day at IITA’s Sendusu station in Wakiso District.\n\nAsio said IITA and the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) developed maize, millet and sorghum varieties tested to yield with little rain or to mature early, and that the ministry was promoting them under its climate-smart agriculture programme. She said many had been given to Karamoja because they mature quickly and need little water. The report did not identify varieties or trial yields; her remarks describe the programme’s direction rather than measured harvest results.\n\nAsio said the ministry was developing a national irrigation project that could be rolled out if the Ministry of Finance provides funding. That remains a conditional plan. Earlier small-scale equipment schemes split irrigation-equipment costs: farmers paid 20% and government 80%. The ministry acknowledged that the schemes had not reached every district. Separately, the World Bank-funded Uganda Climate Smart project was supplying irrigation systems to farmers free of charge, she said.\n\nShe said Uganda’s seed and plant-variety laws are administered through the Uganda National Seed Certification Service. One route requires variety certification; another permits quality-declared seed, a less stringent system in which farmers select seed based on traits such as disease resistance and yield. Farmers could also continue using older varieties they had found resilient to pests, disease and drought.\n\nTractors and other machinery remained unaffordable for many small-scale farmers, Asio said, so the ministry encouraged groups to share equipment. Officials were asking lenders to offer adequate grace periods, while growers still needed to invest in fertiliser, pesticides and quality seed. She called 12% interest high and said rates were set by lenders and market conditions. Development partners’ collateral and input suppliers’ post-harvest repayment arrangements had helped some farmers obtain credit.\n\nIITA representative George Mahuku said the institute’s Uganda work includes breeding, biochar, biodiversity, soil fertility and irrigation, with a focus on cassava, banana and soybean and joint maize work with NARO. He said their Aflasafe biological-control product against aflatoxin had been handed to NARO Holdings for commercialisation. IITA banana breeder Violet Akech said the programme adds pest, disease and drought tolerance to familiar local varieties such as Nakitembe and Mpologoma, while conserving local varieties in field and laboratory collections.","title":"Uganda outlines drought-ready seed and irrigation measures for farmers","topics":[],"translations":[{"api_url":"https://newsverum.com/api/v1/articles/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026?lang=tr","language":"tr","url":"https://newsverum.com/tr/news/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026"},{"api_url":"https://newsverum.com/api/v1/articles/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026?lang=en","language":"en","url":"https://newsverum.com/en/news/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026"},{"api_url":"https://newsverum.com/api/v1/articles/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026?lang=ar","language":"ar","url":"https://newsverum.com/ar/news/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026"},{"api_url":"https://newsverum.com/api/v1/articles/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026?lang=fr","language":"fr","url":"https://newsverum.com/fr/news/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026"},{"api_url":"https://newsverum.com/api/v1/articles/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026?lang=es","language":"es","url":"https://newsverum.com/es/news/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026"},{"api_url":"https://newsverum.com/api/v1/articles/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026?lang=de","language":"de","url":"https://newsverum.com/de/news/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026"},{"api_url":"https://newsverum.com/api/v1/articles/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026?lang=pt","language":"pt","url":"https://newsverum.com/pt/news/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026"}],"url":"https://newsverum.com/en/news/uganda-seed-irrigation-climate-adaptation-2026"},"version":"1"}