Bhutan
Farmers harvested double yield by adopting Wengkhar Hybrid Maize 1 in Bhutan
A type of heat- and drought-tolerant maize is improving yields for Bhutanese farmers.
Expanding BISA expertise to new horizons in South Asia
Senior government representatives from across South Asia join forces to consolidate food security in the region.
Can agriculture bring South Asian countries together?
An article in Amar Ujala in India explores the cross-country collaboration instigated by the Borlaug Institute for South Asia.
2022 Excellence in International Service Award
This award recognizes outstanding contributions to plant pathology by APS members for countries other than their own. Contributions may have been made through collaborative projects, sabbaticals, short- and long-term assignments with educational or governmental agencies, including, but not limited to, international centers and research institutes.
Bhutan and Bangladesh join forces to combat threat of rust diseases
For the first time, Bhutan and Bangladesh are collaborating on evaluating Bangladeshi wheat lines for resistance to yellow and leaf rusts.
USAID’s Feed the Future initiative highlights CIMMYT heat tolerant maize breeding
The Feed the Future initiative of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) featured CIMMYT’s Heat Tolerant Maize for Asia (HTMA) project in a recent newsletter, highlighting it as an exemplary public-private partnership. Launched in 2013, the project is developing heat-resilient hybrid maize for resource-poor smallholder farmers in South Asia whose livelihoods are threatened by climate change.
Heat stress-resilient maize hybrids for Asian farmers
The “2nd Annual Progress Review and Planning Meeting for the HTMA Project” was held 22-23 July at UAS, Raichur in Karnataka, India. To take advantage of the presence of renowned scientists at this newly established agricultural university, the inaugural session of the meeting was organized as a special seminar on “Global initiatives on climate resilient crops.”
