CIMMYT posted a photo: A traditional grain storage structure in Malawi, known as a nkhokwe, whose porous structure lets pests in to damage the maize stored inside. “Before the introduction of silos, we were using sacks and nkhokwe, but we were not ab…
CIMMYT posted a photo: A technician in CIMMYT’s Wheat Quality Laboratory, carrying out polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis to separate the glutenins present in wheat grain samples by molecular weight. Different bands in the resulting glutenin prof…
Thomas Lumpkin, CIMMYT director general, and Honorable Joseph Made, Minister of Agriculture and Mechanization of Zimbabwe, signed a new memorandum of understanding on 29 October 2012 to strengthen the relationship between CIMMYT and the government of Z…
CIMMYT and the Borlaug Institute for South Asia (BISA), in collaboration with Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), organized an advanced course on “Conservation agriculture and spatial variability analysis of soils using EM 38” in Ludhiana, India,…
A delegation from Kenya, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia — the target countries of the Effective Grain Storage for Sustainable Livelihoods of African Farmers (EGSP) Phase-II Project— visited Malawi during 22-23 October and Kenya during 25-26 October 2…
