National Agricultural Research Organisation Grant

Organization - National Agricultural Research Organisation
Grant Amount - $300,000
Foundation - Rockefeller Foundation
Grant Purpose - toward the costs of developing high-yielding matooke banana genotypes with resistance to weevils, black sigatoka, nematodes and bacterial wilt


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