Contrast shows superior yield of drought tolerant maize in Tanzania
Contrast between maize ears of different varieties in Morogoro, Tanzania. From left to right they are: traditional variety Asili, improved variety TMV 1 (both currently grown by farmers), and improved, drought tolerant variety, TAN 250. The ears were all grown under the same, normal conditions on farmer field school demonstration plots, run by Tanzanian seed company Tanseed International Limited to teach farmers about drought tolerant varieties, with support from CIMMYT.
TAN 250 is one of two improved, drought tolerant varieties recently developed and registered for sale in Tanzania through CIMMYT's Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project, representing years of fruitful collaboration between CIMMYT and Tanseed. TAN 250 and TAN 254 are based on ZM 401 and ZM 721, varieties selected for tolerance to drought and low soil fertility conditions by CIMMYT at Chiredzi, Zimbabwe, and also contain material from CIMMYT-Mexico and from Tanzania.
For more about the collaboration between Tanseed and CIMMYT, see CIMMYT's June 2009 e-news story "No maize, no life!" available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/about-us/media-resources/newsletter/pre....
For more about DTMA see: dtma.cimmyt.org.
Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT.
Contrast shows superior yield of drought tolerant maize in Tanzania
Contrast between maize ears of different varieties in Morogoro, Tanzania. From left to right they are: traditional variety Asili, improved variety TMV 1 (both currently grown by farmers), and improved, drought tolerant variety, TAN 250. The ears were all grown under the same, normal conditions on farmer field school demonstration plots, run by Tanzanian seed company Tanseed International Limited to teach farmers about drought tolerant varieties, with support from CIMMYT.
TAN 250 is one of two improved, drought tolerant varieties recently developed and registered for sale in Tanzania through CIMMYT's Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project, representing years of fruitful collaboration between CIMMYT and Tanseed. TAN 250 and TAN 254 are based on ZM 401 and ZM 721, varieties selected for tolerance to drought and low soil fertility conditions by CIMMYT at Chiredzi, Zimbabwe, and also contain material from CIMMYT-Mexico and from Tanzania.
For more about the collaboration between Tanseed and CIMMYT, see CIMMYT's June 2009 e-news story "No maize, no life!" available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/about-us/media-resources/newsletter/pre....
For more about DTMA see: dtma.cimmyt.org.
Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT.