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PI:
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Marianne Banziger |
Contact details
P.O. Box MP 163, Harare,
Zimbabwe
Phone: +263 (4) 301807
Fax: +263 (4) 301327
Email direct from site:
M.Banziger@cgiar.org
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Grantee:
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CIMMYT |
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Amount: |
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US $274,500 |
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Duration: |
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Two Years |
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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.
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