In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires
"adaptive research"
means research designed to solve a specific problem for a specific decision maker or research designed to adjust a technology to specific environmental conditions, including the selecting or customising of technologies, processes, or knowledge to suit the needs of users in a specific location;
"agriculture"
means the management and utilisation of natural resources to produce food, drink, fibre, wood and other products;
"agricultural"
means the various kinds of activities and jobs or work connected, associated or based on agriculture;
"agriculturalist"
means a person involved in the profession dedicated to the harnessing of plants and animals for food, drink, fibre, wood and other products and educating people how to do it for human use;
"agricultural product"
means any plant or animal product or such other product as may be declared to be an agricultural product by the Minister for the purposes of this Act;
"agricultural research"
means the furtherance, accumulation and improvement of knowledge in the agricultural and related sciences through original and other investigations and methods of a scientific or indigenous nature into the production, treatment or handling of an agricultural product, including research required for a better understanding of the process involved in or the environment necessary for the production of an agricultural product with the advancement of agriculture as its object;
"agricultural research service provider"
means any person whether in the public or private sector who conducts or manages agricultural research in accordance with this Act; and includes a public agricultural research institute, universities, tertiary institutions, farmers groups, civil society organisations, private sector organisations and any other entity as may be determined by the council;
"applied research"
means research on a subject with a broad range of problems facing a society as a whole or research that creates new technologies;
"basic research"
means research designed to improve a discipline and advance the frontiers of knowledge or research that creates new scientific knowledge and may consist of research to develop or improve theories, techniques or measurements with known or unknown relevance;
"chairperson"
means the chairperson of the council appointed und section
9
;
"currency point"
has the value given to it in the First Schedule to this Act;
"council"
means the governing body of the National Agricultural Research Organisation;
"development"
means the activities by which knowledge acquired through research is scaled-up and utilised;
"director general"
means the director general appointed under section
15
;
"farmer"
means a person who gathers or raises plants, livestock, poultry and fish as food, drink, wood, fibre and other products for human use;
"farmers' fora"
means institutions comprising of democratically elected representatives from farmers' groups at the sub-county, district or national level;
"farmers' organisations"
means organisations recognised by the council and are formed by those engaged in either production or processing or marketing of a specific agricultural commodity;
"farmer groups"
means groups constituted by farmers who have common agricultural interests and is recognised by the council;
"Fund"
means the Fund established under section
41
;
"industry"
means any enterprise involved in the processing of agricultural products in such fields as shall be approved in accordance with this Act;
"innovative agricultural research"
means agricultural research that may not be considered immediately relevant but which may open up opportunities for the future and is funded under the innovative fund;
"invention"
includes the development, in whatever way, of new animal breeds, plant cultivars and other organisms living or non-living;
"management committee"
means the management committee of a public agricultural research institute;
"Minister"
means the Minister to whom the President has assigned responsibility for agricultural research;
"NAADS"
means the National Agricultural Advisory Services established by the National Agricultural Advisory Services Act, 2001;
"national agricultural research system"
means a cross section of stakeholders whether in public or private sector; and comprises of the organisation, public agricultural research institutes, universities and other tertiary institutions, farmer groups, civil society organisation, private sector and any other entity engaged in the provision of agricultural research services;
"national strategic research"
means research responding to national research questions or priorities and identifying the processes, principles and technological elements required for successful adaptation of technologies and increasing the efficiency of applied and adaptive research;
"organisation"
means the National Agricultural Research Organisation established under section
5
;
"private agricultural research"
means research that focuses largely on technological innovations that enable inventors, agricultural research service providers, private firms and others to capture all or some of the economic benefits generated by their innovation;
"public agricultural research"
means research that focuses on public interests and research outputs of public goods nature;
"public agricultural research institute"
means a public agricultural research institute established under section
28
;
"research of national strategic interest"
means agricultural research that Uganda cannot rely on third parties to conduct;
"technology transfer"
means the transfer of knowledge, techniques and processes for their application; and
"zonal agricultural research and development institute"
means a zonal agricultural research and development institute established under section
28
.