August 2019

Identification of rice genotypes tolerant to submergence at seedling stage in Uganda

Floods have destroyed over 2000 acres of rice in Uganda which affected yield and caused losses to farmers. This problem is more pronounced when fields are not well leveled, and the mode of irrigation is by surface flooding. Majority of lowland rice fields in East African region are of this nature and are thus prone to yield losses. There are no submergence tolerance varieties identified in Uganda, so far. To address...

Author(s): Anna Bildadi Mlaki, Paul Gibson, Richard Edema, Jean Claude Habineza, Gerald Mwanje, Jimmy Lamo and Ephraim Nuwamanya