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Veteran media personality Jimmy Gathu is back on the screens with a new health talk show dubbed 'Doctors Practice’ on KTN Home. The family show targeting mainly between 28 and 45 year-olds is Gathu's big comeback on TV after he previously hosted the 'Women Leadership Show' on the same station.
"I used to have a potbelly but for medical reasons, I had to stop having it," said Githu
Announcing CIMMYT-derived fall armyworm tolerant elite maize hybrids for eastern and southern Africa Breakthrough comes after three years of intensive research and trials conducted in Kenya — and during the United Nations International Year of Plant Health — and represents a significant advance in the global fight against fall armyworm. December 23, 2020 A collage of maize images accompanies a CIMMYT announcement about fall armyworm-tolerant maize hybrids for Africa. The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is pleased to announce the successful developme...
The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) has announced the successful development of three CIMMYT-derived fall armyworm-tolerant elite maize hybrids for eastern and southern Africa. Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) emerged as a serious threat to maize production in Africa in 2016 before spreading to Asia in 2018. Host plant resistance is an important component of integrated pest management (IPM). By leveraging tropical insect-resistant maize germplasm developed in Mexico, coupled with elite stress-resilient maize germplasm developed in sub-Saharan Africa, CIMMYT work...
Yusuff Ali M.A., chairman and managing director of the UAE-based LuLu Group, has been nominated to the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Samman Awards (PBSA) jury committee by Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, on the occasion of the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas Convention 2021. The awards recognize overseas Indians who have made significant contributions either in India or abroad in various fields. Other members who were nominated by the Indian prime minister are: Professor Manjulal Bhargava of the department of mathematics, Princeton University; Ramesh Babu, group managing director of Kiboko Group o...