High yielding rice varieties play an important role in increasing rice productivity. Rice breeders at various research stations in Pakistan are continuously working to evolve and disseminate high yielding varieties (Khichi ...

This study was undertaken in rainfed Pothwar of the Punjab to assess farmers' wheat varietal choices and factors affecting adoption of semi-dwarf varieties. This tract can be divided into three sub-zones based on rainfall ...

The Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) initiative aims to address the challenge of combating the impacts of drought on people’s livelihoods, food security and economic development. It links the efforts of several ...

Este informe documenta el número y los tipos de variedades e híbridos de maíz lanzados por los programas públicos de mejoramiento entre 1966 y 1997; describe las variedades e híbridos comercializados por organismos públicos ...

Este número de Hechos y tendencias mundiales relacionados con el trigo consta de tres partes: un examen de los cambios recientes en la producción de trigo en el Tercer Mundo y su trascendencia en el futuro, un panorama ...

En informes anuales recientes, hemos destacado los principales problemas que obstaculizan el desarrollo mundial (la pobreza, la degradación ambiental, el rápido crecimiento demigráfico), cómo se relacionan y refuerzan entre ...

The 1995 final report of the international maize testing program covers trials sent to cooperators in 1995 and for which data were received by September 1, 1997. It also includes trial results from 1994 for which data ...

After the end of the most destructive and fierce war of the history in 1945, the humankind faced the new threat - hunger. In the beginning of the second half of the 20'h century, the threat of hunger became especially ...

The 1996 final report of the international maize testing program covers trials sent to cooperators in 1996 and for which data were received by September 1, 1998. It also includes trial results from 1995 for which data ...