Dr Emily Twinamasiko, NARO Director General, Dr Seyfu Ketema ASARECA Executive Director, and Tress Bucyanayandi, Uganda’s Agriculture Minister launch the ASARECA General Assembly

The Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa (ASARECA) will be holding their first General Assembly in December, in Entebbe, Uganda.

The General Assembly that is attracting participants from the 10 ASERECA member countries begins on Wednesday December 14th and closes on Friday December 16th.

The GA was launched last week, together with the Ministry of Agriculture and NARO at the media center, under the theme, “Feeding our region in the 21st Century”..

ASARECA will be sharing the research breakthroughs in the agricultural research sector as witnessed in the region, which is the ten ASARECA member countries in Eastern and Central Africa.

This will include research on the banana diseases, cassava, maize, and other staple food crops, as well as new technologies that have been developed and tested in Uganda, and other countries to improve the agricultural output and sustainability of crops.

You can be part of the event by participating via facebook, myspace or twitter. The twitter hashtags are #ASERECA, #Africa Agriculture, #Agriculture Innovations.

The General meeting is being screened live at our online video channel http://www.livestream.com/weinformers