CIMMYT posted a photo: Children pose in a demonstration plot in a farmer’s field in Malawi, where maize is cultivated using both conservation agriculture (CA) and conventional practices so that visitors can compare them. CA offers reliable harves…
In order to define the research priorities for the Seeds of Discovery initiative in maize quality of landraces (a Strategic Initiative of both CRPs MAIZE and WHEAT funded by Mexico), a diverse group of food scientists, chemists, maize breeders, geneban…
Maize under conservation agriculture (CA), with residues of the previous crop visible, on a plot belonging to farmers Jelimoti and Belia Sikelo, where they both practice CA and demonstrate it to other farmers. Visitors to their fields, in Mwansambo ext…
June 3, 2012, Shenzhen, China – BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization, together with other 17 international institutes, announced that they completed the second generation of maize HapMap (Maize HapMap2) and genomics studies on maize d…
CIMMYT posted a photo: Mr Chipeni began employing conservation agriculture (CA) practices seven years ago, and is still trying new things—“I just started the maize-groundnut rotation and I believe I’ll benefit,” he says. The biggest advantage o…
