Training is a major CIMMYT activity. Through the years, training activities have evolved as an essential component in the development of improved agricultural technologies. The principal objective of CIMMYT's various ...

"On this, the 22nd day of September, 1986, I formally inaugurate the Norman E. Borlaug Building, dedicated to training agricultural scientists from all over the world." With these words, Miguel de la Madrid, President of ...

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) is a non-profit agricultural research and training institution. Since its inauguration in 1966, CIMMYT's primary purpose has been to strengthen and support the ...

CIMMYT is a private, autonomous, nonprofit, scientific and educational institution chartered under Mexican law to engage in the improvement of maize and wheat production, everywhere in the world, with emphasis on developing ...

Maize and wheat researchers throughout the developing world look to CIMMYT as their international research center of excellence on these crops. The growing requirements of developing country research institutions in germplasm ...

Asia plants more than half of the developing world's wheat crop and almost half of its maize crop. So why should anyone be concerned about Asian agriculture? The answer is that improvements in agriculture are often the ...

Training is a major activity at CIMMYT. The principal objective of the Center's various training programs is to increase the professional expertise of agricultural research personnel in developing countries. After completing ...

Our work demands creative scientific insight into an uncertain future. We know that the research we conduct today, if conducted with foresight and a concern for equility, will improve economic and environmentalconditions ...

Maize and wheat together represent about 94% of the total cereal area and about 95% of total cereal production in South Africa. CIMMYT has been a research partner with South Africa since the mid-1970s, dedicated to improving ...