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Quantitative and Qualitative study involving Individual questionnaires , ladder of life and and Focus group discussions in two sites per country.
Cowpeas have a high potential to contributing to house hold food security, nutrition and poverty reduction. However, cowpea crop faces adoption challenges in Zambia because the crop is taken as women’s crop with minimal ...
Impact of improved cassava varieties in Nigeria
This report answers the following key research question: Does adoption of improved cassava varieties have any significant causal effects on productivity and poverty? The results of this project showed that about 60% of the ...
Release of 1 or 2 stable soybean varieties in each region
Twelve genotypes were planted at two sites in Malawi, Dowa and Nkotakota, under zero phosphorus application and at 24 kg/ha phosphorus application. Due to the severe drought, trials at Nkotakota were written off. The results ...
High-yielding soybean and cowpea
In 2016, three soybean genotypes; one early (TGx 1835-10E), one medium (TGx-1904-6F) and one late (TGx-1951-3F) maturing were evaluated for high yield and drought tolerance in three agro-ecologies in Mozambique: Ruace, ...
Soybean and cowpea foundation seed production
The objective of the seed production component of the project is to enhance the availability of good quality seeds to farmers through the production and distribution of foundation seeds to partners to facilitate the ...
Selection from segregating population across major agroecologies
A wild cowpea relative TVnu 1158 was identified three years ago and crossed to two cultivated lines IT99K-573-1-1 and IT98K-556-6. A total of 244 F9 Recombinant Inbred lines (RILs) from TVnu 1158 x IT99K-573-1-1 were ...
Screening cowpea germplasm (cultivated and wild relatives) for aphid resistance
A total set of 376 entries including 374 mini-core accessions, 1 resistant check (TVu801) and 1 susceptible check (TVx 3236) were evaluated in screening cages at Kano and screen house at Cotonou for resistance to cowpea ...
Leaf Gas Exchange Measurements
Three soybean varieties with varying maturity duration were planted in two agro-ecologies in Mozambique: Ruace, (15.2355o S, 36.6886o E), Zambezia province and Muriaze (15.2729o S, 39.3173o E), Nampula province to understand ...
Establishment of field trials in the Southern and northern Guinea Savannas of Nigeria. Monitoring of crop performance by smallholder farmers around the trial sites. Use of field data to validate predictive models for legume technology dissemination
Trials were conducted under near-optimal conditions (moisture and nutrients non-limiting) via researcher managed conditions across various locations and sowing dates in rainy and dry season of 2016. Minimum data sets (MDS) ...
5319 Amd 3 Musa IITA 17 MTR_Task 2: Crop Improvement, Cultivar Screening: identification of variation in total carotenoid and pVAC content in plantain varieties
Sixty-four plantain accessions were screened for provitamin A carotenoid content using HPLC and total carotenoids using spectrophotometry to identify high carotenoid plantains for breeding or fast-track delivery. Results ...