CIMMYT posted a photo: Wheat variety Urbina flourishes in a farmer’s field, being grown for seed for the small seed company Bidasem, in the central Mexican plains region known as the Bajío. Urbina, released in 2007, was developed for the Bajío …
CIMMYT posted a photo: Mexican farmer Francisco Javier Balderas Espinoza checks the progress of wheat in his field, in the central Mexican plains region known as the Bajío. He is producing seed of the wheat variety Urbina, on behalf of the small seed …
CIMMYT posted a photo: María Esther Rivas, director general of the small seed company Bidasem, visits a wheat field to check on its progress. Bidasem, based in the city of Celaya in the central Mexican plains region known as the Bajío, produces maize…
After spending 2 months and a half in Obregon and two weeks in Batan, participants in the 2012 Wheat Improvement Course celebrated their graduation at CIMMYT’s El Batán headquarters last Thursday 31. This time there were 23 participants from 16 coun…
A field interview: Patronato Episode 3 of the series “A field interview” follows the farmer cooperative PIEAES, better known as Patronato, located in the State of Sonora, Mexico. Patronato descends directly from a group of farmers who, havi…
