Title
Sustainable Wheat & Maize Production in Afghanistan (ACIAR funded, Project number: CIM/2011/026)
Author
Susanne Dreisigacker
Rajiv Sharma
Eric Huttner
Aziz Karimov
Carolina Sansaloni
Rosemary Shrestha
Kai Sonder
Hans-Joachim Braun
Access level
Open Access
Description
Abstract - Since 2012, Australian support has resulted in the release of 23 wheat varieties by Afghanistan’s National Varietal Release Committee (NVRC). These varieties deliver both improved yield and disease tolerance. A 2015/16 farmer survey confirmed that farmers were indeed sharing seed with an average of three relatives/neighbours – although with no indication of how much seed was shared. This uncertainty regarding the adoption of new varieties has been intended to resolve by a recent DNA assessments of seed collected in 2015/16 that shows the general prevalence of the new varieties across 600 surveyed farms.
Publisher
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Publish date
2019
Resource Type
Dataset
Information Resource
Source repository
Repositorio Institucional de Datos y Software de Investigación del CIMMYT
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