The similarities between the hills of Nepal and the maize producing areas of Bhutan encourage stronger cooperation between the two countries. To discuss this cooperation, a team of scientists from CIMMYT’s Hill Maize Research Project (HMPR) visited B…
Despite being the fourth most important crop in Afghanistan (covering about 6.5% of the total cereal area of the country and accounting for about 6.8% of the total cereal production), maize has not been given enough attention by the national research s…
“Those who have not used the doubled haploid technology are not in this century” said Kingstone Mashingaidze, Programme Manager for Plant Breeding and Biotechnology of South Africa’s Agricultural Research Council (ARC), during the closing ceremon…
For the past three years the SIMLESA project has been working towards its target of improving maize/legume productivity by 30 percent and reducing downside risk by 30 percent. Over a ten-year span, the project hopes to impact 100,000 farmers with conse…
