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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.