Asia
As a fast growing region with increasing challenges for smallholder farmers, Asia is a key target region for CIMMYT. CIMMYT’s work stretches from Central Asia to southern China and incorporates system-wide approaches to improve wheat and maize productivity and deliver quality seed to areas with high rates of child malnutrition. Activities involve national and regional local organizations to facilitate greater adoption of new technologies by farmers and benefit from close partnerships with farmer associations and agricultural extension agents.
CIMMYT helps the Seed Entrepreneurs’ Association of Nepal devise its organizational strategy
Capacity development
In response to the interest expressed by the Seed Entrepreneurs’ Association of Nepal (SEAN), CIMMYT-Nepal organized a meeting with SEAN and the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) on 29 July 2015 at NARC’s Agriculture Botany Division, Khumaltar, as an activity of the CIMMYT-led Cereal System Initiative for South Asia-Nepal (CSISA-NP).
Pakistani stakeholders evaluate the performance of CIMMYT maize germplasm across Punjab
Capacity development
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC), organized a traveling seminar to give stakeholders the chance to evaluate the performance of CIMMYT maize germplasm in Punjab Province, Pakistan.
Message from Borlaug-Ruan international intern Sweta Sudhir, Turkey, summer 2015
Capacity development
Borlaug-Ruan international intern Sweta Sudhir tells us about her summer at CIMMYT-Turkey.
Zero-till wheat raises farmers’ incomes in eastern India, research shows
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Rebuilding livelihoods: CIMMYT supports agricultural recovery in Nepal
Climate adaptation and mitigation
Replacing gender myths and assumptions with knowledge
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
If we are to be truly successful in improving the lives of farmers and consumers in the developing world, we need to base our interventions on the best evidence available.
The first heat tolerant maize hybrids are licensed for deployment in Bangladesh, India and Nepal
Climate adaptation and mitigation
AAA hybrids move towards commercialization
Climate adaptation and mitigation
PLC6 is a term used to refer to an advanced stage of hybrid testing at Syngenta, a partner of the Affordable, Accessible, Asian (AAA) Drought Tolerant Maize Project. Four hybrids, representing combinations of Syngenta and CIMMYT germplasm are currently at PLC6 in big plots at multiple locations. The trajectory of this process points to pilot marketing of a limited quantity of hybrid seed in 2016 and a full market launch in 2017.
Tech-savvy women in Haryana implement precision fertilizer application
Capacity development
The state of Haryana, India’s breadbasket, faces a major challenge due to the excessive use of nitrogen fertilizer (N: P: K = 27.2: 9.8: 1) in agriculture. The overuse of nitrogen fertilizer in the rice-wheat systems of Haryana has led to high production costs, low efficiency, environmental pollution and nitrate contamination of groundwater, which causes blue baby syndrome in young children.