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Local farmers participate in planting late blight resistant potatoes at a confined field trial at Rwebitaba in Fortportal, Uganda.
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Precision Abel Arinaitwe, manager of the Uganda confined field trial for genetically engineered late blight disease resistant potatoes, ensures uniformity in spacing while planting.
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Friday Herbert, a Ugandan potato farmer, participates in planting genetically engineered late blight disease resistant potatoes in a late 2017 confined field trial.
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Farmers from around the globe visit an American farm during an Alliance for Science farmer communications course in Moline, IL.
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Potatoes ruined by late blight disease (left) are compared to healthy potatoes.
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Dr. Charles Mugoya (right), chairman of Uganda's National Biotechnology Council, and Dr. Eric Magembe, a molecular biologist at the Crop Improvement Project, observe a late 2017 confined field trial for late blight disease resistant potatoes.
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Ugandan farmer Friday Herbert displays a miserable potato harvest, despite spraying twice with fungicides to help prevent losses to late blight disease.
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Bt brinjal farmer Hafizur Rahman shows the damage caused by fruit and shoot borer infestation of non-GMO brinjal on his farm in the Tangail district of Bangladesh.
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Akhter Hossain of Bangladesh compares healthy potatoes (right) to potatoes infected with late blight fungus.
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Afzal Hossain, a farmer in the Rangpur district in Bangladesh, proudly displays his harvest of genetically engineered Bt brinjal.
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Close up of potato infected by late blight fungus.
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Farmer Khalilur Rahman harvests genetically engineered Bt brinjal in the Tangail district od Bangladesh .
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Arif Hossain, a 2015 Alliance for Science Global Leadership Fellow, speaks to a community in Bangladesh about biotechnology and the introduction of Bt brinjal (eggplant). Credit: Alliance for Science

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Seed collected from genetically engineered, insect resistant Bt brinjal will be shared with farmers in Bangladesh.
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Bt brinjal farmer Khalilur Rahman from Tangail District, with his harvested BARI Bt brinjal 2 variety.

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After losing two maize crops to drought, Said Salum Njukwage, a farmer in the Bagamoyo region of Tanzania, is looking forward to growing WEMA maize.
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A Tanzanian farmer displays cassava infected with the black streak disease. Scientists are developing a genetically engineered variety resistant to the disease.
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Joseph Opoku Gakpo, (blue and orange shirt) a 2016 Global Leadership Fellow, interviews a farmer. Credit: Alliance for Science

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Mariam Ditopile Mzuzuri examines corn at an Iowa farm during an Alliance for Science global farmer communications training program in Moline, IL.
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Tanzanian farmer, Rehema Maganga, inspects a diseased cassava plant. Researchers are using biotechnology to develop disease-resistant cassava varieties.
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