The Nutritious Maize for Ethiopia (NuME) aims to develop and promote quality protein maize (QPM) in the major maize growing areas of Ethiopia, including the highlands and the dry lands, to improve nutritional status of children. The project has a stron…
On 26-27 April 2013, the FONTAGRO “Generation and validation of drought tolerant maize varieties to stabilize and reduce mycotoxin damage resulting from climate change” project held its end-of-project meeting in La Ceiba, Honduras, along with the C…
Farmers in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania last year recorded losses of about 50-100 percent on their total maize yields following the outbreak of a new maize disease known as Maize Lethal Necrosis Disease –MLND. National program researchers work together…
As traditional storage methods are proving less efficient, especially when faced with pests, a team of scientists from CIMMYT and the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute researched the effectiveness of hermetic systems in controlling maize storage pe…
CIMMYT posted a photo: A farmer displays the grains from a crop just harvested on an IMAS on-farm trial in Embu, Kenya. The Improved Maize for African Soils (IMAS) project is developing varieties that would do well with the little fertilizer farmers ca…
