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Maize
germplasm developed for the public and private sector, identified
maize hybrids and OPV’s with better performance under conditions
typical for resource-poor farmers and acceptable to farmers in the
SADC region
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Initiated marketing of new
stress-tolerant maize cultivars accepted by farmers.
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Collaborators annually conducting
100 farmer-participatory National Maize Variety Trials
(Mother/Baby trials).
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Fifty public and private sector
breeders and technology disseminators (agronomist, socio-economists,
extensionists) trained in appropriate cost-effective on-farm
verification and farmer-participation methodologies.
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Completed four market surveys in
areas of inadequate seed supply to resource-poor farmers.
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Increased collaboration among
germplasm-developing and seed-disseminating institutions in the SADC
region, resulting in faster and more wide-spread knowledge of maize
cultivars that are appropriate for resource-poor farmers conditions
and their faster availability to farmers.
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Broadened project leadership and
ownership.