Year 3 focus on promoting preferred varieties, sustaining seed supply mechanisms
With about 85% of the scheduled activities implemented and farmer preferences for improved varieties of sorghum and finger millet in the six HOPE project mandate districts in Tanzania established through PVS, demonstrations and field days, the third HOPE project planning meeting got off in Arusha, …
Partnerships pay dividends for Maharashtra’s HOPE farmers
Cultivated on close to 3 million hectares, sorghum is an important food and fodder crop in Marathwada and Western Maharashtra, India. Poor adoption of improved varieties and cultivation technology by farmers and frequent terminal moisture stress affect grain yields. Till recently, in the absence of …