South Asian farmers avoid losses and earn relatively more income by planting heat- and drought tolerant hybrids based on CGIAR germplasm.
The Heat Tolerant Maize for Asia (HTMA) project helps smallholder farmers in 3 South Asian countries maintain a source of food, feed and income, by developing heat tolerant maize hybrids and getting them out to farmers via licensing to small and medium-size seed companies – the first hybrids got rel...
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| Formato: | Case Study |
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2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/121570 |
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