Medic, a forage legume that made good as an Australian immigrant, is going back home to Mediterranean cereal fields with the help of CIMMYT. In cereal-legume rotations, medic boosts cereal yields by raising soil nitrogen ...

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 ...

In 1976, a dozen farmers in Mulunguishi, a tiny village in southeastern Zaire, harvested 6000 kilograms of maize a hectare -a yield that would be respectable for any maize farmer. These farmers were participating in a ...

Egypt has pulled together widely dispersed scientists into an efficient, systematic maize research group. With CIMMYT's help, the foundation is being laid for sharply raising the productivity of the nation's major food crop.

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.

El medicago, una leguminosa forrajera que hizo el bien como inmigrante australiano, regresa a su hogar en los campos cerealicolas del Mediterraneo merced a la ayuda del CIMMYT. En las rotaciones cereales-leguminosas, el ...

El creciente compromiso del CIMMYT con respecto al adiestramiento, en un centro dedicado originalmente y de manera capital a la investigación, ha evolucionado coma un complemento esencial del desarrollo de tecnologfas ...

It is gradually being accepted that women in Pakistan make a direct contribution in the farming sector. The extent and nature of their contribution, however, is not fully known to development planners. In the past, very ...

CIMMYT's development of short, widely adapted durum wheats has enhanced the food production prospects of durum-producing nations. Scientists at CIMMYT and in national cereal programs are working together to combine high ...

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.