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Drought tolerant maize for Africa

Ruth Kamula, a community-based seed producer in Kiboko, Kenya, planted KDV-1, a drought tolerant (DT) seed maize variety developed with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) as part of CIMMYT's Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project. "I am trying my hand at DT maize seed production because it will lift me and my family out of poverty. It is our lifeline during this time of drought," she says. (June 2009)

 

Part of the image collection of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT). Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT.

 

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Taken on May 14, 2008