Most of the soils in smallholders areas of Zimbabwe are acidic. This is one of the main reasons that crops grow poorly. Lime is a low cost amendment which makes soils less acidic. Lime has been widely used by commercial ...

Mucuna pruriens (velvet bean or kalongonda) is a legume, which gets most of its nitrogen (N) from the air and adds N to the soil from the leaves and stems that fail during the season. The more N added to the soil, the ...

The NRG works to boost harvests while reducing the costs of farming-for people and the environment-with a focus on soil, water, and farming systems diversity. To accomplish this, NRG staff identify, test, and promote ...

Cowpea (Vigna ungulculata) is a versatile annual grain legume that is widely planted by smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe, usually as an intercrop with maize. Farmers grow a range of types that include those with an indeterminate ...

I'd like to welcome you to CIMMYT home of the Green Revolution and the center of origin of international agricultural research. I'm going to add to the information presented in the short video you just saw. The reason for ...

The Government of Japan and CIMMYT recognize the urgency of devising better strategies for food, income, and environmental security in the developing world. Japan supports four CIMMYT research projects directed at reversing ...

Despite remarkable economic progress in Asia over the past three decades, 1.9 billion people still live on less than $2 dollars per day. Asia plants more than halt the developing world's wheat and almost half its maize. ...