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Farmers in Zambia proudly display their vitamin A maize harvest. Now that the benefits of vitamin A are more widely understood, farmers and consumers are increasingly enthusiastic about orange maize.
Photo credit: Eliab Simpungwe (HarvestPlus)
I was giving my girlfriend/associate a primer in HDR tonight (how to make them and how not to make them look like cartoons). This was my shot from our outing.
Maize ears from CIMMYT's collection, showing a wide variety of colors and shapes. CIMMYT’s germplasm bank contains about 28,000 unique samples of cultivated maize and its wild relatives, teosinte and Tripsacum. These include about 26,000 samples of farmer landraces—traditional, locally-adapted varieties that are rich in diversity. The bank both conserves this diversity and makes it available as a resource for breeding.
Photo credit: Xochiquetzal Fonseca/CIMMYT.
In Nepal, maize yield is reduced when
cobs with open husks are attacked by
rodents, insects, pests, and birds.
This photo is from Nepal’s Palpa district,
where International Fund for Agricultural
Development (IFAD) maize-livestock
research activities are ongoing.
Photo credit: G.
Paudel/CIMMYT
A series of partner field days held in Kenya, September 2018 allowed CIMMYT to share the latest developments in maize and wheat research with partners including KALRO (Kenya Agriculture & Livestock Research Organization) and members of IMIC (International Maize Improvement Consortium). The field visits, at Kiboko and Naivasha research stations involved the assessment of a variety of crop improvement and farming innovations including double haploid technology, maize lethal necrosis screening and sustainable intensification practices. Attendees also had the opportunity to interact with a new seed quality digital platform called SeedAssure and evaluate new maize hybrid varieties.
Photographer: Jerome Bossuet/CIMMYT
Maize ears and seed of the Mexican landrace "Celaya". It is dent in type and white in color.
CIMMYT’s maize germplasm bank contains about 28,000 unique samples of cultivated maize and its wild relatives, teosinte and Tripsacum. These include about 26,000 samples of maize landraces—traditional, locally-adapted varieties that are rich in diversity. Many have been developed over millennia by farmers in Mexico, the crop’s center of origin. The bank both conserves this diversity and makes it available as a resource for breeding.
Photo credit: CIMMYT.
The varying degrees of color from yellow to orange indicate the presence of carotenoids, including beta-carotene.
A maize demonstration plot where crop management was done using hand weeding in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. This was taken during field day organized by the NGO, Sustainable Agriculture Technology (SAT) which in collaborating with CIMMYT in testing drought and heat-tolerant maize varieties in "climate hotspots."
Jill Cairns/CIMMYT
Unlike white maize varieties, vitamin A maize is rich in beta-carotene, giving it a distinctive orange color. This biofortified variety provides consumers with up to 40% of their daily vitamin A needs.
Photo credit: Joslin Isaacson (HarvestPlus)
Maize at Sawla market in Ghana's Northern Region.
Credit: ©2010CIAT/NeilPalmer
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Ester Samuel, of Lemu, Balaka, Malawi, spreads out maize flour to dry it. Her family is one of those that is benefitting from the introduction of conservation agriculture (CA) practices that offer reliable harvests and freedom from hunger and food insecurity. Her uncle, Felix Twaya, farms about three acres of land. On one of his 0.1 hectare plots, he has been practicing conservation agriculture (CA) for three years. Previously, he would harvest 7 50 kg bags of maize from the plot. With CA, he is now harvesting 27 bags. “I will even begin using conservation agriculture in my cotton field,” he says.
Government extension officers, the non-governmental organization Total LandCare, and CIMMYT have been supporting farmers in several Malawian communities to test CA in their fields and share it with their neighbors via demonstration plots. With adoption steadily spreading, farmers are seeing increased yields and crops that stay healthy under drought conditions that wilt conventionally-grown plots.
CA is a set of practices that includes eliminating traditional ridge-and-furrow tillage systems, keeping crop residues on the soil, and rotating or intercropping maize with other crops. In addition to labor and cost savings, the improved soil structure resists erosion and increases water infiltration and retention, a huge benefit when drought threatens in places like Malawi, where maize subsists on rain alone.
Photo credit: T. Samson/CIMMYT.
For more, see CIMMYT's 2012 e-news story "Conservation agriculture in Malawi: 'We always have problems with rain here,'" available online at: www.cimmyt.org/en/front-page-tems/aboutmediaresources/130....
Maize near Villavicencio, on the border of Colombia's eastern plains, or Llanos.
Credit: ©2011CIAT/NeilPalmer
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Maize ears and seed of the Mexican landrace "Cacahuacintle". It is floury in type and white in color.
CIMMYT’s maize germplasm bank contains about 28,000 unique samples of cultivated maize and its wild relatives, teosinte and Tripsacum. These include about 26,000 samples of maize landraces—traditional, locally-adapted varieties that are rich in diversity. Many have been developed over millennia by farmers in Mexico, the crop’s center of origin. The bank both conserves this diversity and makes it available as a resource for breeding.
Photo credit: CIMMYT.
Demonstration of a hand jabber for planting maize seeds into mulch field day organized by an NGO, Sustainable Agriculture Technology (SAT) in Masvingo, Zimbabwe. CIMMYT scientists are collaborating with SAT in testing the suitability of drought and heat-tolerant varieties in the "climate hotspots."
Jill Cairns/CIMMYT
Maize ear showing symptoms of ergot, or horse’s tooth (Claviceps gigantea). Infected kernels grow into large fungal structures known as sclerotia alongside normal healthy kernels. In the early stages of infection, sclerotia are pale colored, soft and slimy, finally hardening toward harvest time.
Photo credit: CIMMYT.
Maize ears and seed of the Mexican landrace "Bolita", collected in the state of Oaxaca. It is richly variable, showing white, yellow, red and black colorations. It is flint in type.
CIMMYT’s maize germplasm bank contains about 28,000 unique samples of cultivated maize and its wild relatives, teosinte and Tripsacum. These include about 26,000 samples of maize landraces—traditional, locally-adapted varieties that are rich in diversity. Many have been developed over millennia by farmers in Mexico, the crop’s center of origin. The bank both conserves this diversity and makes it available as a resource for breeding.
Photo credit: CIMMYT.
Maize in Colombia's eastern plains, or Llanos.
Credit: ©2011CIAT/NeilPalmer
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CIMMYT pathologist George Mahuku and technician Janet Kimunye examine leaves of maize plants affected by the maize lethal necrosis (MLN) disease at the MLN Screening Facility in Naivasha, Kenya.
Florence Sipalla/CIMMYT
A twin maize cob found during segregation of maize population at CIMMYT's Harare research station in Zimbabwe.
Photo credit: A. Tarekegne/CIMMYT.
Maize is big business in Kenya. Here is maize laid out to dry. You can also see sacks of packed maize in the foreground. (Oct/ Nov 2010)
The work of Agrosalud to improve the nutritional content of maize crops.
Credit: ©2010CIAT/NeilPalmer
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Maize ears and seed of the Mexican landrace "Palomero". It is a type of popcorn, with small, white, flint kernels.
CIMMYT’s maize germplasm bank contains about 28,000 unique samples of cultivated maize and its wild relatives, teosinte and Tripsacum. These include about 26,000 samples of maize landraces—traditional, locally-adapted varieties that are rich in diversity. Many have been developed over millennia by farmers in Mexico, the crop’s center of origin. The bank both conserves this diversity and makes it available as a resource for breeding.
Photo credit: CIMMYT.
Maize ears and seed of the Mexican landrace "Tabloncillo", collected in the state of Jalisco. It is highly variable; in this case the ears are flint in type and yellow in color.
CIMMYT’s maize germplasm bank contains about 28,000 unique samples of cultivated maize and its wild relatives, teosinte and Tripsacum. These include about 26,000 samples of maize landraces—traditional, locally-adapted varieties that are rich in diversity. Many have been developed over millennia by farmers in Mexico, the crop’s center of origin. The bank both conserves this diversity and makes it available as a resource for breeding.
Photo credit: CIMMYT.
Farmers and other participants observe the performance of newly-introduced drought tolerant maize varieties during a field day in the dry areas of Merti Woreda, Arsi Zone in Ethiopia.
Photo credit: D. Wegary/CIMMYT
Street vendors in Islamabad, Pakistan, sell boiled and roasted maize. The sale of green maize is the livelihood of many
Pakistanis, both young and old. Venders navigate the streets with locally-made trollies loaded with green cobs and boil or
roast maize for their buyers instantly. They use sand for roasting the grains. CIMMYT-Pakistan targets the improvement of
yield and nutritional quality of maize in Pakistan under the USAID-funded Agricultural Innovation Program.
AbduRahman Beshir/CIMMYT
Afriseeds David Lungu displays a cob of the company's maize at an outgrower's farm in Chongwe, Zambia.
Florence Sipalla/CIMMYT
Maize ears and seed of the Mexican landrace "Comiteco", collected in the state of Chiapas. It is richly variable, showing white, yellow, and purple (or blue) colorations, and both flint and dent types.
CIMMYT’s maize germplasm bank contains about 28,000 unique samples of cultivated maize and its wild relatives, teosinte and Tripsacum. These include about 26,000 samples of maize landraces—traditional, locally-adapted varieties that are rich in diversity. Many have been developed over millennia by farmers in Mexico, the crop’s center of origin. The bank both conserves this diversity and makes it available as a resource for breeding.
Photo credit: CIMMYT.
The Maize Maze at Forge Mill Farm, Sandwell Valley, West Bromwich. The maze this year (2015) was designed to celebrate the Rugby World Cup.
Maize plants showing maize lethal necrosis (MLN). This disease results from combined infection by two viruses: maize chlorotic mottle virus (MCMV) and either maize dwarf mosaic virus (MDMV) or wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV). No lethal necrosis will develop if only MDMV and WSMV occur together. Infected plants are short. The leaves show chlorosis and die at about flowering time.
Photo credit: CIMMYT.
Maize ears and seed of the Mexican landrace "Tabloncillo", collected in the state of Jalisco. It is highly variable; in this case the ears are flint in type and yellow in color.
CIMMYT’s maize germplasm bank contains about 28,000 unique samples of cultivated maize and its wild relatives, teosinte and Tripsacum. These include about 26,000 samples of maize landraces—traditional, locally-adapted varieties that are rich in diversity. Many have been developed over millennia by farmers in Mexico, the crop’s center of origin. The bank both conserves this diversity and makes it available as a resource for breeding.
Photo credit: CIMMYT.