Abstract
Adoption of banana tissue culture in Uganda still remains low despite the availability of policies geared to enhancing agriculture. A survey was carried out on 115 smallholder farmers in Central Uganda to establish the influence of agro-related policies in tissue culture banana adoption between January and July 2018. Results from the study indicated that 83.8% of the respondents were aware about the Plan for Modernization of Agriculture policy as compared to National Agricultural Policy (5.5%), National Development Plan (13.12%) and Agricultural Sector Development Strategy and Investment Plan (3.3%). Age, gender and education level all exhibited weak correlations in relation to policy awareness while generally, the study found out that awareness of the of the policies did not significantly influence farmer’s adoption of tissue culture banana in central Uganda (P>0.05). We conclude that most of the agro-related polices were on paper and minimal efforts were in place to enhance their awareness amongst small holder farmers. We therefore recommend that increased awareness of agro-related policies to the farmers as well as integration of farmer interests in policy formulation are paramount in order to achieve wide uptake of agro-technologies like banana tissue culture.
Highlights
The potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) belongs to familiy solanaceae and genus of solanum is a starchy, perennial tuberous crop
Conducting systematic investigation in this line is vital to come up with conclusive information that would help to increase the yield of the crop in the study area. This experiment was conducted with the objective of assessing the effects of NPS fertilizers application on growth parameters of potato
The longest day’s to 50% flowering (65.33 day's) of potato plant was observed at 150kg ha1 of NPS fertilizer application rate while the shortest day's to 50% flowering (52 day's) was observed at 100Kg ha- 1 of NPS fertilizer application rate (Table 1)
Summary
The potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) belongs to familiy solanaceae and genus of solanum is a starchy, perennial tuberous crop It is the world's fourth largest food crops following maize, wheat and rice [1]. Potato is an important nutrient source in human nutrition as it contains about 79% water, 18% starch as good sources of energy, 2% protein and 1% vitamins including C minerals including, calcium and magnesium and many trace elements [6] It produces approximately twice as many calories per hectare as rice or wheat and is highly nutritious due to its high concentrations of vitamin C and other essential amino acids for balanced human nutrition
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