Partnerships To Control Striga:

Raising Awareness, Containing and Reducing the Infestation and Developing Strategies for Eradication

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News and Features

• Results of IR-Maize activities in 2006, CIMMYT reports outcomes of field tests of IR-maize from 15 sites infested with Striga in Eastern and Southern Africa.

• Commercial Release of Striga Resistant Maize, Ua Kayongo and Synthesis Meeting, 13-15 December 2006; Gulf Stream Hotel, Kisumu, Kenya  New

• Publication: Striga Eradication from Maize Croplands: a Call to Action. African Agricultural Technology Foundation New

• A Student’s Poem on Good Agricultural Practices New

• CIMMYT Announces 26 New I-R Maize Hybrids. See also Hybrid Data

• CIMMYT Ready to Deploy IR Maize Technology to Seed Producers

• Report: Striga Control in Western Kenya

• Report: African Agriculture Technology Foundation (AATF) "Inaugural Report

• Scientific papers published by collaborators

• Book: Ua Kayongo Hybrid Maize. A New Approach to Controlling Parasitic Striga for Kenyan Maize Producers

• News:  New technology by KARI may end Sh800m maize losses for farmers, Daily Nation, 12 July 2005

• News:  'Wonder maize' that could end farmers' agony over weed, The Standard, 11 July 2005 

• Press Release: Fight Striga with Ua Kayongo Hybrid Maize! Click here for complete news item

• Kiswahili Translation

• Luhya Translation

• Luo Translation

• AATF Newspaper Feature on Striga

• Ua Kayongo Field Testing Package

• Ua Kayongo Field Instructions

• Striga Network Field Protocol and Data Report Form

For more information on the fight against striga with Ua Kayongo Hybrid Maize visit www.formatkenya.org/striga

For more information on the Partnership to Fight Striga, please contact:

African Agricultural Technology Foundation

P.O. Box 30709, Nairobi 00100, Kenya.

Email: aatf-information@cgiar.org

Ua Kayongo extension manual 

 Assembling and transportation to field

Distribution and farmer training

 Distribution of field instructions and installation of trials