This report analyzes interactions between public and private sector organizations in the world maize seed industry, with emphasis on the developing world. The analysis includes the share of total maize seed sales in 1992 ...

A viable maize seed industry is a key element in the extension of improved maize varieties to Third World farmers. In this report, the worldwide use and price of maize seed is analyzed by seed type. A discussion of issues ...

Los procedimientos para la producción de semilla de híbridos de maíz y el mantenimiento de líneas progenitoras están bien documentados. Sin embargo, poco se ha escrito acerca del desarrollo, mantenimiento y multiplicación ...

Aumentar la producción de alimentos. Proteger -el medio ambiente. Para cientos de millones de pobres en el mundo, el cambio a la agricultura basada en la ciencia ha traído consigo enormes beneficios. En las siguientes ...

CIMMYT's mandate covers two of the world's major cereal crops, maize and wheat. Fifty-three countries of the developing world have over 100,000 hectares sown to maize; these countries represent three-fourths of the popu ...

A viable maize seed industry is a key element in the extension of improved maize varieties to Third World farmers. In this report, the worldwide use and price of maize seed is analyzed by seed type. A discussion of issues ...

The procedures for the production of maize hybrid seed and maintenance of parental lines are well documented. However, not much has been written on the development, maintenance, and multiplication of improved open pollinated ...

The New Seed Initiative for Maize in Southern Africa (NSIMA) project, funded by The Rockefeller Foundation and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, began its operations in 2005. This project intends, over the ...

This report will summarize activities of the regional maize program for Central America and the Caribbean region for the year ended December 31, 1977. The report is based upon the work of two CIMMYT maize scientists assigned ...