Last year, the city announced it was doing away with another cumbersome data tracking system created under Bloomberg: the $ 95 million
program ARIS, which tracked data for all city students.
Plant breeders of the Ministry of Agriculture: John Kibanda (coordinator for the National Rice Research
Program - KATRIN, Atugonza Bilaro (
ARI - Tumbi), D. Deodatus Kisandu (
ARI - Uyole), Sophia Kashenge (
ARI - KATRIN), and Hezron Tusekelege (Dakawa Research Center).
IRRI scientists based in Tanzania worked in close collaboration with Tanzania's National Rice Research
Program of the Agricultural Research Institute (
ARI)- KATRIN to develop the new varieties.