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Stakeholders in the agricultural seed production value chain have launched a tool to estimate prospective and current seed demand for national seed authorities, seed companies and enterprises. The “Seed Demand Forecasting Tool” has shown to be a highly successful method for closing the demand-supply gap for seeds in countries with…

Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (CSIR-SARI) has trained agricultural extension agents and seed inspectors on fall armyworm management practices to enhance the production of maize in the country. The participants were drawn from Upper West, Upper East, Northern, and North East Regions. The training was to…

Some farmers in the Wa West District have been introduced to stress-tolerant hybrid maize varieties during a farmers' field day in the Yeleyiri community. This was when a team of researchers on the Accelerated Genetic Gain (AGG) project embarked on a monitoring visit to some trial fields of the stress-tolerant…

Judges pick two outstanding scientific works as winners of the 100,000 dollars NLNG Nigeria Prize for Science award

SCIENTISTS overseeing breeding, principal technicians and data management and support staff from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) learned about the Enterprise Breeding System (EBS) at training recently in Nairobi, Kenya.

Scientists, research technicians and data managers learn functionalities and applications of EBS during in-person training in Nairobi.

African Girls and Women in Agriculture (AGWA), have engaged female students from Ejisu Senior High and Technical School on prospects of agricultural courses and exposed them to various career opportunities in the field. Dr Priscilla Francisco Ribeiro, a Research Scientist and Maize Breeder at the Council for Scientific and Industrial…

Documentary features CIMMYT and Alliance scientists contributing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.

Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], December 9 (ANI/BusinessWire India): The prestigious 7th Dr MS Swaminathan Award for the period 2017-2019 was awarded to Dr V Praveen Rao, the Vice Chancellor of Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University.

Program/Project Management Job in Kenya about Agriculture, requiring 3-4 years of experience, from CIMMYT; closing on 04 Mar 2021