Maize plays a pivotal role in the livelihoods of people in southern Africa: its annual per capita consumption is around 85 kg. In the past season, however, farmers in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, and much of Zimbabwe experienced a severe droug…
CIMMYT posted a photo: Maize in the field in Islamabad, Pakistan, being grown for use as fodder for livestock. Photo credit: A. Yaqub/CIMMYT. For the latest on CIMMYT in Pakistan, see: blog.cimmyt.org/?s=Pakistan.
CIMMYT posted a photo: “When farmers see the seed and they like it, that’s something that really motivates me, on behalf of all the people that are making the effort in seed processing and field production,” says Bidasem director general María E…
CIMMYT posted a photo: In the seed processing plant at Bidasem, workers visually examine and manually sift maize seed on a conveyor belt, picking out material such as damaged or spoiled seed or pieces of cob. After initial cleaning and sorting, all see…
CIMMYT posted a photo: In the seed processing plant at Bidasem, a worker sews up a sack of maize seed, attaching a label carrying basic agronomic information about the seed. This is the final stage in a process in which the seed must be cleaned, sorted…
