News
Scientific opportunities and challenges
Capacity development
First meetings of the AGG Science and Technical Steering Committees generate insights and recommendations for optimizing breeding schemes.
Balanced fertilizer application boosts smallholder incomes
Capacity development
Precision nutrient management helps women farmers in Nepal increase crop yields and household incomes.
Power of data: To enhance food security
Innovations
Source: The Himalayan Times (6 Nov 2020)
CIMMYT and Nepal’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development developed a digitally enabled seed information system so farmers have timely access to quality seed.
Starting with a seed
Capacity development
Inclusive seed business model empowers women from marginalized communities in Nepal.
En route to improved agronomic literacy
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Women in rural Nepal prosper from training program on soil fertility management practices.
Retrospective quantitative genetic analysis and genomic prediction of global wheat yields
Innovations
A new quantitative genetics study makes a strong case for the yield testing strategies CIMMYT uses in its wheat breeding program.
How do I become a zero-till farmer?
Capacity development
New online training takes farmers and service providers though a visual journey on the use of conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification methods.
“Better, faster, equitable, sustainable” – wheat research community partners join to kick off new breeding project
Nutrition, health and food security
Collaboration, partnership and mutual learning with national partners key focus of new project to accelerate breeding and delivery of improved wheat varieties.
Supporting smallholder farmers to better combat drought
Climate adaptation and mitigation
CSISA project suggests pathways to remove barriers inhibiting full use of groundwater irrigation infrastructure in Nepal’s Terai region.
Gauging the impact of COVID-19 lockdown on farming communities and agribusinesses in Nepal
Nutrition, health and food security
A survey conducted by CIMMYT researchers collected insights from over 200 key value-chain market actors.
Mechanized harvesting fuels rural prosperity in Nepal
Innovations
The tractor-mounted reaper saves farmers time and money and offers new sources of income.
Small but mighty
Capacity development
The introduction of mung bean has transformed rice-wheat food systems in Nepal and has been one of the major successes of the Agronomy and Seed Scaling project.
Stripe rust hits wheat crop in Nepal
Environmental health and biodiversity
Source: Seed Quest (27 May 2020)
Nepal Agricultural Research Council and CIMMYT scientists suspect new races of stripe and leaf rust in the Nepal hills and terai in the recent 2020 wheat season.
New publications: Gender differentiated small-scale farm mechanization in Nepal hills
Gender equality, youth and social inclusion
Adoption of mini-tiller is significantly lower in female-headed households, CIMMYT researchers find.
Blast and rust forecast
Climate adaptation and mitigation
New project to deliver wheat disease warnings directly to farmers’ phones in Bangladesh and Nepal.
