Uganda's National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) has handed over 13 improved potato varieties to nine private seed companies for multiplication and distribution to farmers. Other released varieties include Uganda 11 (Rutuku), Victoria, KACHPOT 1, and NAROPOT 1 to 6, with NAROPOT 4 (Rwangume) among the best known. The licensing agreements were signed with FICA Seeds, Kabale Irish Potato Agri-business Limited (KIPAL), Okeba Uganda Limited, Parlex Enterprise Uganda Limited, Tabid Farm Seeds Africa Limited, Ujamma Seed Company Limited, CADCA Seeds Limited, Sterling Seeds Limited, and Syova Seeds (U) Limited. By last year, we had signed 26 companies in total for different varieties of NARO technologies," Kassim said. Baguma added that seed companies should also provide farmer training in agronomy, while NARO will continue supporting diagnostic services to safeguard seed quality.