In the concern over the current world food crisis, the importance of maize is often underestimated: hunger is commonly understood as a question of rice ahd wheat. Indeed, while maize is second in production only to wheat ...

El intensivo trabajo genotécnico realizado con triticale en el CIMMYT durante la década pasada, ha llevado a este cultivo "hecho por el hombre" al umbral de su explotaci6n comercial por agricultores del trópico y subtrópico.

Intensive triticale breeding at CIMMYT during the past decade has brought this "man-made" crop to the brink of commercial cultivation by farmers in the tropics and subtropics.

The growing commitment to training, at a center devoted originally and primarily to research, has evolved as an essential complement to the development of improved agricultural technologies.