AgrotechA first-of-its-kind workshop in Hyderabad took 33 breeders from ICAR institutes, state universities, CIMMYT and BISA through data collection, drone phenotyping, data management and AI-assisted analysis.
CropsA multi-year study at more than 600 sites across Ethiopia's wheat belts found the zinc-efficient variety Melka, combined with targeted fertiliser, improves the odds of high yields and high grain zinc even on zinc-poor soils.
More than 500 people from 17 wards gathered for the Mbire Good Food and Seed Festival, where over twenty local crop varieties were displayed and exchanged and farmers voiced concern that fewer landraces leave them exposed to drought.
Pakistan's biofortified zinc wheat programme grew from 64,000 hectares in 2019 to more than 3.1 million in 2023, reaching 3.3 million farming households, after the province of Punjab paid for breeder seed and cleared the certification bottleneck.
