Research projects (progress and plan) for southern highlands zone were discussed and approved and submitted to ARI-Uyole Secretariat to be compiled into two reports: Annual Research plans for 2017/18 and Annual research progress report for 2015/16.
For SPIRIT project, spirit coordinator Dr. Mwakasendo presented progress report for the project for year three.
Activities reported were
Result from the execution of four innovation session, four guidelines prepared for enhancing product quality along the potato value chain and prepared four proposals/recommendation for policy makers to promote changes in policies, regulation and standards in order to foster the generation and implementation of innovations along the chain also lesson learnt from knowledge exchange event in Kenya.