Through five years of on-farm trials supported by the governments of East Timor and Australia using locally-suited crop varieties provided by five centers of the CGIAR-Consortium, small-scale farmers in East Timor learned about and acquired seed of imp…
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New doubled haploid facility will strengthen maize breeding in Africa
CIMMYT’s Global Maize Program will establish and operate a maize doubled haploid (DH) facility in Kiboko, Kenya. With financial support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, this centralized DH facility will be able to produce at least 100,000 DH lines per year by 2016, thus strengthening maize breeding programs

DTMA recognizes best-performing teams in Eastern Africa
During 25-26 February 2013, 22 participants drawn from seed companies, national agricultural research institutes, and CIMMYT met in Arusha, Tanzania, for the regional Maize Working Group (MWG) meeting, a forum that brings together participants from cou…

How to Fight Tar Spot on Maize
Sometimes you run across news headlines about how Disease X hits Country Y hard. (Food shortages imminent). But who identifies the disease? And how? This video follows CIMMYT pathologist George Mahuku and University of Chapingo agronomist Humberto Cast…

New postharvest storage technologies for Latin America
The 2nd Latin American Convention on Airtight Storage sponsored by the global company GrainPro, Inc was held during 1-2 March 2013 in Antigua, Guatemala. More than 50 participants from Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, El Salvador, Guate…
