Juma Yabeja

[James Legg @jamesplegg]

☀️ Cassava Sky 🌱

Improved varieties of #cassava grown by seed entrepreneur Burton Nsape 🇹🇿 have produced high quality, vigorous, & tall stems ready for sale. Varieties Pwani, Mkumba, Mkuranga1 & Kiroba are high yielding (20-30t/ha) & more disease resistant than local varieties

[James Legg @jamesplegg]

@KRingeera @TanzaniaTari @IITA_CGIAR @PROSSIVA_CGIAR @YabejaJuma @allanmzalendo @GlorianaNdibal1 @tzDiscovery @ShirimaRudolph You are right. There is some really nice recent evidence for farmers increasingly accessing healthy planting material of improved varieties in western Kenya. Please check my latest posts with a link to a new paper about this. Great to get your comments if you can read that 👍🏼

[James Legg @jamesplegg]

4️⃣🌿 4 Stages 🇹🇿4️⃣

TARI researchers are using 4 Stages to propagate virus-free seed of improved #cassava varieties to speed transfer to farmers in #Tanzania🇹🇿
1️⃣ Tissue culture
2️⃣ Semi-Autotrophic hydroponics
3️⃣ Mini-plants
4️⃣ Pencil stems
Work is on-going to maximize efficiency

[James Legg @jamesplegg]

🇧🇷 Brazil vs. Tanzania 🇹🇿

Herminio Rocha, EMBRAPA Brazil & Nsajigwa Mwakyusa, TARI Tanzania, compare their approaches to rapid propagation of #cassava seed. South-South knowledge sharing like this will lead to stronger, more efficient seed systems in both countries
@TanzaniaTari

[James Legg @jamesplegg]

🌿Mbegu za Muhogo🌿

Mbegu Bora Zinauzwa🇹🇿

Miti au Muhogo? Mimea ya muhogo ya Anna Macha ina urefu wa 5m. Mbegu za aina Kiroba, Kizimbani na Chereko zilithibitishwa na TOSCI. Ukinunua kwake - Yombo, Bagamoyo, antoa shauri zote za njia bora za kulima.
Mpigie kwenye:

0689 619 889

[James Legg @jamesplegg]

🌿 Cassava Seed 🌿

Anna Macha, a cassava seed entrepreneur, has high quality seed for sale in Bagamoyo, Tanzania 🇹🇿

Of her 3 varieties - Kiroba, Chereko & Kizimbani - Kiroba is most preferred by buyers for its high yield, early maturity (6-10 months) & sweet taste
@medadotorg

[James Legg @jamesplegg]

🌍🌿 IITA Seminar 🌱🇹🇿

New Year
New Seminar/Webinar

Today the #IITA East Africa team gather to listen to the first of a new seminar series for the EA Hub. The honour for starting off goes to Juma Yabeja, who presents work to assess current farmer knowledge of #cassava diseases

[IITA GoSeed @iitagoseedltd]

Happy New Year to the remarkable BIP GoSeed team and partners! May 2024 bring abundant success, innovation, and fruitful collaborations. Let's sow the seeds of excellence together in the coming year!

[Samar Sheat, Ph.D.🌿 @SamarSheat]

May the New Year bring a bountiful harvest of joy, success, and prosperity, just like the growth of cassava!
Wishing everyone a year filled with opportunities and fulfillment. #HappyNewYear2024 #CassavaSuccess 🌱✨
#Cassava team, Plant Virus Department, @Leibniz_DSMZ_en

[Morag Ferguson @ManiocMorag]

#cassava gaining momentum rapidly in Kenya at the National Cassava Conference and Expo 2023, organized by #SelfHelpAfrica with partners @IITA_CGIAR and others #ncce

[James Legg @jamesplegg]

🇳🇬🌿 Digital Cassava 🌿🇳🇬

IITA has been working with the Nigeria Agricultural Seed Council (NASC) to institutionalize SeedTracker, an ICT system faciliting real-time e-certification. The App is now available for free via Google's PlayStore, & is being expanded for other crops

[James Legg @jamesplegg]

🌿 DigiSeeds 🌱

https://t.co/7CQjO4zTWC allows #cassava & #sweetpotato seed producers in #Tanzania 🇹🇿 to register their farms, get seed certified by TOSCI, & market their seed, BUT, challenges remain, including limited access of producers to computers or smartphones
#PROSSIVA

[Kwame Ogero, PhD @OgeroKo]

Embracing technology to make VPC seed certification more efficient & cost-effective. Seed Tracker app enables paperless & realtime registration of seed fields. @YabejaJuma @jamesplegg @Beldizy @Cipotato @oursweetpotato @PROSSIVA_IITA

[James Legg @jamesplegg]

🌿 Seed Ups n Downs 🌱

Amos Mshina is the Chair of #cassava seed producers in the Lake Zone of NW #Tanzania

Having a diversity of new varieties has helped their businesses a lot & increased demand.....

BUT

Certification charges levied for each variety means costs are too high

[James Legg @jamesplegg]

🌿 24 Years 🌱

Great meeting David Bergvinson 24 years after we met up for a shared #CGIAR award in New York. Met today to discuss progress being made in developing sustainable seed systems for #cassava in #Tanzania 🇹🇿 & other vegetatively-propagated crops through #PROSSIVA

[James Legg @jamesplegg]

🌿🔬 Seed Quality 🇹🇿🌱

Peter Nassari of the #Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute relates progress made in seed quality assurance for #cassava, #banana, & #sweetpotato

Meeting now with stakeholders to work out how to improve systems to deliver clean seed to farmers 🚜

[Wizara ya Kilimo @WizaraKilimo]

Waziri wa Kilimo, Mhe. Hussein Bashe (Mb) na Katibu Mkuu Wizara ya Kilimo, Bw. Gerald Mweli katika kutembelea maabara ya kisasa ya tafiti za kilimo ya Taasisi ya Kimataifa ya Maendeleo ya Kilimo kwenye Ukanda wa Kitropiki (IITA) tarehe 19 Disemba 2023, jijini Dar es Salaam.

[Wizara ya Kilimo @WizaraKilimo]

IITA imekuwa ikitumia maabara zenye teknolojia za kisasa katika kufanya tafiti mbalimbali za mazao na mbegu, ili kuongeza tija katika sekta ya Kilimo hapa nchini. Wadau hao wamemuhakikishia Waziri Bashe kuendelea kushirikiana na Wizara katika masuala ya utafiti wa kilimo.

[Delphine Amah @AmahDelphine]

Just concluded three exciting days with Team #PROSSIVA reflecting and charting the roadmap for #banana,#cassava, #sweetpotato & #yam seed system development in 🇬🇭 🇳🇬 🇷🇼 🇹🇿& 🇺🇬 .

[James Legg @jamesplegg]

🌿 Fixing Bottlenecks 🌿

Delphine Amah, co-lead for the Program for Seed System Innovation for Vegetatively-propagated crops in Africa (#PROSSIVA), explains that the project's mantra is to tackle bottlenecks in the seed systems of #banana, #cassava, #sweetpotato & #yam