A handful of drought tolerant maize seed
A handful of maize seed, especially precious because it is of the improved, drought tolerant variety TAN 250, which yields even in times of drought. This was developed and registered for sale in Tanzania through CIMMYT's Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project, in partnership with Tanzanian seed company Tanseed International Limited. It is based on material from CIMMYT-Zimbabwe, CIMMYT-Mexico, and Tanzania.
For more about TAN 250 and the longstanding collaboration between Tanseed and CIMMYT, see CIMMYT's June 2009 e-news story "No maize, no life!" available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/38-2009/119-genetic-resource....
For more about DTMA see: dtma.cimmyt.org.
Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT.
A handful of drought tolerant maize seed
A handful of maize seed, especially precious because it is of the improved, drought tolerant variety TAN 250, which yields even in times of drought. This was developed and registered for sale in Tanzania through CIMMYT's Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa (DTMA) project, in partnership with Tanzanian seed company Tanseed International Limited. It is based on material from CIMMYT-Zimbabwe, CIMMYT-Mexico, and Tanzania.
For more about TAN 250 and the longstanding collaboration between Tanseed and CIMMYT, see CIMMYT's June 2009 e-news story "No maize, no life!" available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/newsletter/38-2009/119-genetic-resource....
For more about DTMA see: dtma.cimmyt.org.
Photo credit: Anne Wangalachi/CIMMYT.