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Abiotic stress tolerant maize for increasing income and food security among the poor in eastern India and Bangladesh

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Coordinating organisation: International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Description: To enhance food and income security of resource-poor farming families and consumers in
India and Bangladesh
To provide poor farmers with stress-tolerant, short-duration maize varieties with improved
protein quality that offer crop diversification and intensification options, greater yields under
conditions of water shortage and waterlogging,and improved nutritional value as livestock
feed and human food
Budget (in &euro): 1000000
Start: 2008-01-01
End: 2010-12-30
Species: maize
Categories
ARD-theme: cropping/cultivation systems
Target country: Bangladesh
India
Commodity: cereals
Activity: production
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Donor organisations: 1
Participating organisations: 1
Programmes funding: 1


Last editing: 2008-03-19 13:09:00