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| Mission
Statement |
| To offer
rural farmers services, outreach and R & D
opportunities in: |
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• Sustainable banana productivity
• Business and product process development
• Product quality assurance & safety
• Process / product technology transfer
& commercialization |
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| Main
Objective |
| To kick
– start a pilot industry in banana value
addition through a state-of-the-art industrial
platform that leverages University academic research
and technical leadership in realising optimum
benefits for primary stakeholders while assuring
product market strength and maximum consumer satisfaction. |
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| Specific
Objectives |
- Establishment of benchmarks;
- Capacity building for rural farmers in
new production technologies and agronomic
practices;
- Ascertaining sustainable processing of
quality market – driven matooke products;
- Linking rural farmers / seed entrepreneurs
to favourable micro-financing mechanism;
- Establishing reliable supply chain models
linking farmers / seed entrepreneurs to profitable
market outlets;
- Assessing project impact on environmental
sustainability, overall economic wealth, food
and nutrition security at macroeconomic level;
- Transformation of Bushenyi TBI into a banana
Industrial Research and Development Centre
(BIRDC);
- Promoting entrepreneurship in the private
sector and training at public institutions
through establishment of an ITP.
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| Outputs |
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A state-of–the-art rural–based banana
processing industry at Bushenyi and Sanga based
on the TBI/ ITP framework;
• Banana
Industrial Research and Development Centre (BIRDC);
• A range of banana – based products
on the market.
• Capacity build for
market competitive banana production & value
addition at all levels.
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| Outcome |
1. Rural
banana value addition enterprises operating through
R & D principles;
2. Market demand - driven innovation of novel
products;
3. Sustainable Matooke production based on best
practices & irrigation system;
4. Transformation of livelihoods of rural communities;
5. Novel Matooke based products.
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