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65,000 South Asian farmers’ resilience and income sustained through drought-tolerant maize

The Heat Tolerant Maize for Asia (HTMA) project develops and disseminates heat-tolerant hybrids in 5 South Asian countries. Through a licensing model to small and medium-size seed companies, the first hybrids were released in the project's 3rd year, benefiting ca. 65,000 farmers in 4 HTMA countries...

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Main Author: CGIAR Research Program on Maize
Format: Case Study
Language:Inglés
Published: 2021
Subjects:
climate change
farmers
maize
climate
adaptation
yields
drought
income
resilience
seeds
climate change adaptation
hybrids
africa
east africa
companies
south asia
heat
asia
model
countries
case studies
agrifood systems
rural development
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121545
Summary:The Heat Tolerant Maize for Asia (HTMA) project develops and disseminates heat-tolerant hybrids in 5 South Asian countries. Through a licensing model to small and medium-size seed companies, the first hybrids were released in the project's 3rd year, benefiting ca. 65,000 farmers in 4 HTMA countries with higher yields and income. Growing heat-tolerant, high-yielding maize can form part of farmers' climate change adaptation response (5, 6), which is better supported institutionally in South Asia than in East Africa (4).

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