Experimenting on production of high value market products from indigenous wild fruits(December 2013-August 2015)Funders: Satoyama Development Mechanism, Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Japan Collaborators: Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Institute, Ministry of Health, Kampala

Description:This study is the first stage of a projected multi-stage effort to support conservation wild plants outside protected areas in Uganda’s drylands. Edible native wild fruit belonging to 11 taxa were collected from Katakwi and Amuria Districts of Eastern Uganda and analysed at the Natural Chemotherapeutics Research Institute, Ministry of Health in Kampala.

Nutritional evaluations were analyzed and production of high value market products experimented.

Nutritional evaluations were analyzed and production of high value market products experimented.