On behalf of CIMMYT, welcome to Mexico and El Batan. And, on behalf of the Maize staff, in particular, we would like to express our appreciation for your attendance here at the Symposium on ''WorldWide Maize Improvement ...

Maize is a major food for millions of the poor in Africa and Latin America. During the last few decades, CIMMYT scientists have developed a "quality protein maize" (QPM) that looks and tastes like normal maize, yields as ...

The Asian Maize Biotechnology Network (AMBIONET) is a collaborative research and training network established in April 1998 that is aimed at building the biotechnology capacity of national maize programs in Asia. The focus ...

The DTMA project employs multi-location trials as vehicles for identification of drought tolerant varieties and hybrids with broad adaptation to a particular agro-ecological zone. Promising varieties selected based on trial ...

This publication addresses some of the problems of maize improvement in the tropics and stresses that many can be solved through approaches involving the development and maintenance of broad-based gene pools and populations. ...

Maize in Indonesia is the second important food crops with the annual harvested areas of 4.0 M ha with the total production 16.32 M ton (CBS, 2008). However, the country still imports maize to meet its increasing domestic ...

The Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) Project is being implemented jointly by CIMMYT and the IITA, and is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The project is part of a ...

The growth in high-value agriculture world-wide is driven partly by rising incomes, urbanization, and perhaps changing preferences. As income rises, the share of the food budget allocated to starchy staples declines relative ...