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Newsletter / Bulletin
Striga weed control with herbicide-coated maize seed
(CIMMYT, 2002)
The witchweed Striga decimates maize, millet, sorghum, upland rice and Napier throughout sub-Sahara Africa. From the high plateau of East Africa where peasant farmers struggle to survive on tiny fields of maize, to the ...
Newsletter / Bulletin
Acid-tolerant maize: promoting sustainable farming on acid savannas
(CIMMYT, 2002)
Acid soils account for some four-fifths of agricultural lands in South America and two-fifths - more than 183 million hectares - in Brazil alone. Normal maize varieties yield as little as 0.5 t/ha of grain on even moderately ...