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Up-scaling sustainable clean seed yam production systems for small-scale growers in Nigeria
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| Coordinating organisation: | Natural Resources Institute |
| Description: | Objectives: Benefits for poor people generated by application of new knowledge on crop protection to annual and herbaceous crops in Forest Agriculture production systems. Background: Scarcity and expense of clean planting material (seed yams) is a major constraint to increasing yam production and productivity in West Africa. Traditional methods of seed yam production under low-input systems were found inadequate for supply of the large quantities required by farmers. The minisett technique was developed by NRCRI and IITA in the 1970s as a rapid means of multiplying yam germplasm, but it was shown that while 78.8% of the farmers in the eastern forest zone of Nigeria were aware of the technique, only 48.8% actually practised it. More recent experience from CPP-funded projects (R8278, R7503) indicates that uptake is even lower than this. |
| Budget (in &euro): | 104327 |
| Internet: | Projects Link |
| Start: | 2005-04-01 |
| End: | 2006-01-30 |
| Species: | yam |
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| ARD-theme: | plant production |
| Target country: | Nigeria |
| Commodity: | root/tuber |
| Activity: | research |
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| Donor organisations: | 1 |
| Participating organisations: | 3 |
| Last editing: | 2006-07-18 12:00:28 |