🇺🇲🌿 ICT Tools 4 Ag 🌿🇺🇲 A team from Penn State University & the CGIAR centres of IITA International Potato Center & Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT are meeting this week to build plans for the coordinated delivery of ICT Tools for pest/disease diagnosis for root, tuber & banana crops. Check us out

🇺🇲🌿 Nuru into action 🌿🇺🇲 PlantVillage Nuru is being used across Africa to identify disease in cassava fields. Widespread use throughout Western Kenya has helped farmers to boost their knowledge of cassava diseases & apply recommended control measures @zombieantguy

#HappeningNow in Mwanza Sustainable Commercialised Cassava Seed System -Lakezone(Mwanza and Mara) Catherine James Legg Juma Yabeja Bill Gates Gates Foundation GCP21 CASSAVA NextGen Cassava

🌿🇺🇲🌿 Building 'Nuru' 🌿🇺🇲🌿 Building the artificial intelligence plant disease diagnosis app PlantVillage Nuru needs skill & patience in collecting & annotating images. Here the RootsTubersBananas Breeding team sees how annotation is being done in the Penn State lab of PlantVillage🌿 CGIAR

Was very fruitful meeting.

🇹🇿🌿 Hands in the Air 🌿🇹🇿 Let's have your hands in the air for #cassava seed systems Joint BEST & BASICS cassava project teams celebrate a hard day's brainstorming work on building commercial cassava seed systems in #Tanzania, #Nigeria & elsewhere in Africa IITA Lava Kumar

Time for cutting a ribbon by Deputy Minister of Agriculture to officiate the launch of TACAPPA. #Cassava seed system to strengthen access of high quality seeds by farmers is a major theme. Increase productivity, cassava pays.

Creating awareness of disease recognition using NURU AI..as we promote commercialised cassava value chain..explaining to the deputy minister of agriculture # TACAPA meeting. James Legg Juma Yabeja @

Our online and offline tumaini model comparison to detect Xanthomonas wilt of banana #Bxw Miguel Dita @[email protected] (Jacob van Etten) CGIAR Digital Transformation Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT Juan Lucas Restrepo RootsTubersBananas Breeding , offline model getting ready for other diseases too... stay tuned...Alejandro Vergara

#KFUPDATES || Naibu Waziri wa kilimo Omar Mgumba(Mb) jana amezindua umoja wa wazalishaji na wasindikaji wa zao la muhogo(TACAPPA) na kuwahimiza wakulima wa zao hilo kufuata ushauri wa wataalam wa kilimo kuhusu matumizi ya mbegu bora, udhibiti wa magonjwa, na upatikanaji wa masoko

Tanzania Golden Youth Agripreneurs in #CassavaDay #TACAPA James Legg IITA Catherine TzConnect @Tzyouthagripre1 AKILIMO @tzagriculture @KilimoForum Nteranya Sanginga

🇹🇿🇰🇪🇹🇿🇰🇪🇹🇿🇰🇪🇹🇿🇰🇪🇹🇿🇰🇪🇹🇿🇰🇪 Positivity & team spirit are behind the smiles & enthusiasm of teams from #Tanzania & #Kenya sharing experiences on building sustainable cassava seed systems in the two countries. And this is only Day1 😂 IITA RootsTubersBananas Breeding IITA GoSeed CGIAR

🇹🇿🔬 #WomenInScience 🔬🇹🇿 2 young women scientists working with #IITA are having a great impact on Ag development in #Tanzania: Edda Mushi (left) thru work with #TARI to develop cassava varieties & Neema Mbilinyi (right) raising awareness of digital pest/disease diagnostic tools

Ghana imeanza kutumia Drones za kisasa kubeba na kusafirisha sampuli kwa haraka kutoka maeneo ya vijijini na kuzipeleka Accra na Kumasi ambako kuna maabara zinazofanya vipimo vya corona,Serikali ya Ghana inashirikiana na Kampuni ya Drones ya Marekani (Zipline) kufanya zoezi hilo.

Wadau nawaanzishia #ElimikaWikiendi Mapema. Tunaendelea na lugha yetu #Kiswahili katika kuelimishana juu ya #covid19 na kirusi #SARSCoV2 Karibuni tuendeleze mjadala khalifa said #PALESTINE 🇵🇸 ☭🌹 Maria Sarungi Tsehai Richard Mabala January Makamba fatma karume aka Shangazi Togolani Mavura vijana.fm/2020/05/15/mas…

Are you at #NaneNane2020, #Simiyu #Tanzania. Visit IITA exhibition within the @tzagriculture area to learn about our work on #digitalextension. Including #Akilimo tools; Seedtracker & #NURUapp for detecting plant diseases, @Tzyouthagripre1 program. nteranya sanginga CGIAR

🇹🇿🚜 Farmers' Week 🚜🇹🇿 Neema Mbilinyi is with the IITA team at Farmers' week in Simiyu #Tanzania showing how the PlantVillage Nuru phone app does instant offline crop disease detection. Here with the Minister & Permanent Secretary but hosting lots of farmers too 😁🚜😁

Is it possible to diagnose #pest and #diseases by phone? Yes, how? via #plantvillage Nuru. Oooh! Let us air this App for the benefit of cassava farmers and seed producers to manage the diseases. Neema Mbilinyi of IITA demonstrating how the App works Nanenane Simiyu 2020.

Our safest comes first...part of VVEG team members IITA Dar es salaam Tanzania battling COVID19💪 by wearing mask😷😷 in the molecular lab #IitaCOVID19Contest #WorldMaskWeek

Hon Prof Adolf Mkenda, Minister @tzagriculture also toured our research facilities including our soil, plant pathology, molecular and food science laboratories. He requested for a longer visit to get more details of our research work & how to scale results to reach more #farmers.