![]() A series of trials of genetically modified (GM) crops specifically engineered to be resistant to wilt, brown streak and a host of diseases that are blighting Uganda’s crops has yielded promising results. “Some people are hungry, are starving.”ĭepending on whom you speak to, this may all soon change, with Uganda poised to open its borders to genetically modified organisms (GMO). “There are very many people who don’t have ,” says Kulabigwo. At the same time, the country depends on agriculture for a quarter of its GDP. Uganda loses five per cent of its GDP to malnutrition and hunger according to a recent government study. Brown streak afflicts 60-70 per cent of Uganda’s cassava growers, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation.įor Uganda, the world’s largest consumer of bananas and the second largest banana producer, these diseases are economically devastating. In some areas of the country wilt and Black Sigatoka have forced almost every farmer to destroy their banana crops. Kulabigwo also knows all about the devastating Banana Xanthomonas Wilt that rapidly kills entire banana plants and ruins the soil around them. ![]() Now she tends fulltime to a 10-hectare plot at her ancestral home, growing cassava, beans, pumpkin, a few pawpaw trees, and Uganda’s staple food, the banana. Nearby, her cassava plants are also frequently destroyed by “brown streak”, an insidious disease which turns the starchy root vegetable into a putrefied soggy brown mess.Ī retired teacher, Kulabigwo, like eight out of 10 Ugandans, has also farmed part-time for years to help make ends meet. It’s infected with Black Sigatoka, a major scourge for Ugandan farmers. The midday sun is searing over Alice Kulabigwo’s farm in Luwero, north of Uganda’s capital, Kampala, as she inspects the blackened stem of one of her banana plants. Opponents believe it is a neo-colonial conspiracy that connects the White House to billion-dollar multinational corporate greed. However, if you're looking to "farm" the achievement as well as have the freedom (and lack of guilt) of rolling need on every item, you may be better off going back.Miranda Grant for The Global Mail – Alice Kulabigwo tending her crops in LuweroĪs Uganda prepares to legalise GMO, supporters say it will save a farming industry gripped by epidemic blights, and help alleviate hunger and malnutrition. ![]() ![]() Of course, basically any Cataclysm dungeon drop, normal or heroic, will count towards this. You'd still need a fair amount of DPS for the gauntlet event, something my survivability can't help that much with. I didn't try Halls of Reflection, but I don't think I could solo it. These are also pretty profitable to solo if you don't have too much trouble. I was able to solo Forge of Souls and Pit of Saron on Normal, as well as Forge of Souls on Heroic, on my modestly-geared protection Paladin. The ICC instances on Normal and Heroic qualify as well. Of course, you can also go into any Wrath Heroic, assuming you can handle them.
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