Africa will experience a green revolution sooner than expected. What is required is the political will and mind change of African leaders to achieve a green revolution in the nearest future.
A training workshop has been organized for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technicians from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA), the Remote Sensing Center in Jos, and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources (FMARD)…
Commercial soybean production is expanding fast in Borno State of Nigeria. Several farmers in the southern part of the State are adopting the production of the crop for food and for income generation…
Farmers participating in the IITA/Gatsby crop-livestock project in the northern Guinea savanna of Nigeria are taking advantage of the extra early varieties of cowpea supplied them under the project to double their production and earn more income.
The following facts have been released by IITA Management today, 26 July 2007 in response to the action by its General Staff at its Ibadan campus.
Scientists at IITA have assembled a set of eight non-toxin producing (atoxigenic) strains of Aspergillus flavus capable of radically reducing aflatoxin in maize using the biological control approach.
The potential sources of agricultural growth are land, agrochemicals, labor quantity, labor quality, tractors, livestock, technology, and random factors. All these put together and harnessed determine both agricultural and economic growth in Africa.
Research at lITA covers crop improvement, plant health, and resource management of cassava, cowpea, soybean, maize, banana, and yam within a food systems framework.
There has been a long drawn awareness about the food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa. Over the past three decades, stories of food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa has dominated global news.
