hybrids

Capacity development
Features

Fostering private sector engagement to develop and scale locally-produced hybrids seeds in Nepal.

Capacity development
News

Postgraduate students visit a hybrid maize seed company as part of drive to enhance partnerships between Nepal’s agricultural universities and the seed industry.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
News

The TA5085 variety will benefit farmers producing under rain-fed conditions in drought-prone areas, like Myanmar’s central dry zones.

Innovations
Features

CIMMYT partner seed company supports smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa with stress-tolerant seed against biotic and abiotic stresses.

Innovations
News

CIMMYT is offering a new set of improved maize hybrids to partners, to scale up production for farmers in these areas.

Innovations
Features

New lines of CIMMYT-derived maize show increased resistance to maize lethal necrosis (MLN) disease. Their rapid adoption, along with sustained monitoring and prevention efforts, are crucial to preventing another outbreak, argues a new report.

Environmental health and biodiversity
News

Breakthrough comes after three years of intensive research and trials conducted in Kenya — and during the United Nations International Year of Plant Health — and represents a significant advance in the global fight against fall armyworm.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
News

Ugandan seed enterprise showcases the performance of stress-resilient maize varieties and engages agro-dealers as last mile seed merchants.

Innovations
Features

Tremendous impact is arising from the longstanding cooperation between CIMMYT’s maize and wheat programs and national programs in countries where CIMMYT works.

Nutrition, health and food security
News

The new AGG project has a strong focus on more synergistic and supportive partnerships with national programs to help improve the effectiveness of their breeding efforts.

Capacity development
Features

By working closely with the farmers, Masindi Seed Company puts itself at a strategic position to understand farmers’ preferred traits better.

Capacity development
Features

Seed companies in Malawi share how they chose their flagship varieties and got them onto the commercial market.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
Features

At demonstration farms, Kenyan farmers discover the stress-tolerant maize varieties they were looking for.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
News

Nepal boosts domestic maize hybrid seed production.

Climate adaptation and mitigation
News

Smallholders in India’s Karnataka state get higher yields from drought- and heat-tolerant maize.