U.S Government Supports Uganda Campaign to Combat Aflatoxins
Published: June 9, 2020
Summary
Vice President Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi and the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF), along with USAID Mission Director Joakim Parker, have launched a nationwide campaign to combat aflatoxins that contaminate improperly handled grain, causing severe health complications, including liver cancer and stunting.
The campaign, supported through USAID’s Feed the Future...
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11 de junio de 2020
What I can understand here is that the US is helping to sensitize and educate in good agricultural practices and post harvest technique but I did not heard of using Aflasafe during cropping to mitigate Aflatoxin. Aflasafe have been used in many countries and it reduces Afaltoxin drastically
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13 de diciembre de 2025
Its important for the ministry agriculture and other stakeholders to reward farmers with quality products with incentives. This can be ware house construction support, soft loans as well as irrigation funding. This will boost post harvest handling of grains
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