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Item Long-Term and Short-Term Cassavas(July, 1944) Jameson, J. D.; Oates, C.; Muir, J. C.; Allnutt, T. B.; Nichols, R. F. W.; Department of Agriculture Kawanda, Kampala ,Uganda, Department of Agriculture Kenya, Department of Agriculture Tanganyika Territory, Department of Agriculture Zanzibar, Cassava Investigation of AmaniIt has been suggested here that correspondents to your journal might be able to throw light on a curious disparity in the practice of cassava cultivation between the various East African territories. In those parts of Uganda where cassava is an important reserve against famine it is the custom to plant up the greater part of the acreage with so-called "long-term" varieties. This description is perhaps not sufficiently definitive, but by it is meant varieties which stay in the ground for two or more years without appreciable deterioration to the tubers. The advantages of this course are presumablyItem Protein content Of Subsistence Crops In Uganda(1958) Jameson, J. D.This study was first undertaken in 1952 in connexion with the work of Trowell, Davies and Dean (1954) on Kwashiorkor, a disease of children caused by lack of protein in the transitional diet after weaning. These authors concluded that no immediate solution to the problem was offered by supplements of animal protein, or by purchases of commodities like dried milk, because they could not be produced in sufficient quantity in the near future. They suggested that a survey of crops contributing to the normal home diet would be instructive.
