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Sustainable Wheat & Maize Production in Afghanistan

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Title Sustainable Wheat & Maize Production in Afghanistan
 
Identifier https://hdl.handle.net/11529/10548167
 
Creator Dreisigacker, Susanne
Sharma, Rajiv Kumar
Huttner, Eric
Karimov, Aziz
Singh, Pawan
Sansaloni, Carolina
Shrestha, Rosemary
Sonder, Kai
Braun, Hans-Joachim
 
Publisher CIMMYT Research Data & Software Repository Network
 
Description 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
 
Subject Agricultural Sciences
Agricultural research
Wheat
Triticum aestivum
DNA fingerprinting
Varietal adoption
 
Language English
 
Date 2019-01-30
 
Contributor Shrestha, Rosemary
Global Wheat Program (GWP)
Genetic Resources Program (GRP)
Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)
CGIAR
 
Type Dataset