Meetings with key stakeholders in Uganda to promote the Biopots project and develop links with packaging end-users including coffee growers and tree nurseries. Demonstration of new biobased pots for plant seedlings as potential replacement for existing single use plastics products.
20.3.24
Lukango Tree Conservancy, Buwama: meeting with nursury operators and conservation manager to discuss the issue of single use plastics waste in their business and demonstrate the envirnomental benefits of the new Biopots packaging
21.3.24
Meetings with coffee seedling nursury operators and site visits to three nurseries in the Masaka region including:
i.Nursery 1- Just outside Maska
ii.UCD/ NaCORI site (Certified mother garden and nursery bed for CWD-r-Robusta Coffee, Certifcate No 1057)
iii.Bugabira CWR-Coffee Nursery (Endokwa Z’Emmwanyi), Licensed by Ugandan Coffee Development Organisation

Meeting at National Forestry Authority tree seedling nursery (Masaka) and demonstration of the new packaging to nursery manager and operators