Research Areas
Crops, Market Access, Seed SystemsCountries
Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, UgandaTimeline
Start Date: 1 January 2008 | End Date: 31 December 2010Overview
The Project will participate in the empowerment of key stakeholders to handle and deploy a recently developed Striga control method, IR (imidazolinone resistance)-maize herbicide seed coating technology.
TheĀ project intends to bring the IR-maize technology to the point where a greater number of IR-maize varieties (OPVs and hybrids) have been released and a wider range of seed companies are engaged in IR-maize seed production, essentially for the technology to successfully be devolved to in-country capacities of selected target countries, in particular Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda (IR-maize pilot countries).
Objective 1: Support interested NARS and seed company breeders to evaluate and register adapted IR-maize varieties and hybrids in SSA countries where Striga is endemic, leading to their commercialization
Objective 2: Develop, package and disseminate information on Striga management using IR-maize technology for use by seed producers, farmers and farmers support groups (stockists, NGOs, extension, community based organizations)
Objective 3: backstop NARS and seed companies on handling, quality control and general management of IR-maize technology.
Research Partners
- ARI - Advanced Research Institute
- African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF)
- Syngeta
- NGO - international or developed-country based non-governmental institution
- Seed Trade Association Of Malawi(STAM)
- Private sector
- Kenya seed company
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extention, herbicide, hybrids, imidazolinone resistance, infestation, IR-maize, Maize, NARS, NGO, Seed, stokist, Striga, technology5 Responses to “Deployment of IR-maize technology for reduction of Striga infestation”
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Hello,
I am an editor with Agricultural Review Magazine. I am working on a supplement story on striga control and I would like to request for your input. please send me any information you may have on ways of controlling striga infestation. I look forward to hearing from you shortly. Thank you.
Lisa,
Please get in contact with Dr Fred Kanampiu on f.kanampiu@cgiar.org
Please send me a set of questions which I can respond to. This will make the information more focused.
Thanks,
Fred
What has been the successes of IR maize compared to other control measures
Are there seeds in striga flowers? if its true that striga has seeds, what is the size?