ICRISAT Research Program West and Central Africa 2016 Highlights- First Multipurpose Sweet Sorghum Varieties Released in West Africa for Crop and Livestock Integration
A tasty treat for man and beast is being made even sweeter for all consumers thanks to a breeding program at ICRISAT-Mali. The latest improved varieties of sweet sorghum can be used to supply juice for
syrup, bioethanol and beer production as well as being enjoyed in more traditional grain forms by growers and as fodder by their livestock.
The International Potato Center (CIP) recently hosted a webinar to discuss opportunities for Nigerian youth, farmers, traders, processors and policy makers within the orange-fleshed sweetpotato value chain with the aim to fight malnutrition and poverty. The event attracted over 160 government, development, academia and research practitioners who signed up for the webinar; 100 attended the live session. Speakers were drawn from Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Research Development (FMARD), National Root Crop Research Institute (NRCRI), International Society for Tropical Root Crops (ISTRC-Africa Branch), Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN Nigeria), Scaling Up Nutrition Business Network (SBN), Ehealth Africa and CIP.
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Country Status Reports on Underutilized Crops by Tolo Iosefa, Samoaapaari
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http://buyorganiccoffee.org/724/organic-coffee-growers/
Organic Coffee Growers
The work of organic coffee growers is to produce excellent coffee using sustainable farming practices. The work of organic coffee growers is to bring healthy organic coffee to your table while preserving Mother Earth. Organic coffee growers are commonly certified by the United States Department of Agriculture or one of its affiliates for the USA and by the various certifying agencies for Japan, the European Union, or specific coffee chains. Organic coffee certification guarantees that coffee is grown, picked, processed, stored, shipped, and roasted separate from regular coffee. Certification guarantees that organic coffee is grown sufficiently far from regular coffee so that herbicides, pesticides, and other substances sprayed on regular coffee do not drift onto the organic area. The work of organic coffee growers results in a product free of the more than 100 impurities found in regular coffee and still full of antioxidants that can improve and prolong life.
Growing Coffee and Preserving the Earth
Farmers work with a limited amount of land and limited resources. They need to keep costs down and produce a product that sells for enough to pay the bills and generate a profit. Unfortunately, this often means using various chemicals to enhance plant growth and retard or kill pests and plant disease. These substances often remain in the soil, remain in the food, and help create new and stronger pests and diseases through survival of the fittest (bugs and diseases). Organic coffee growers seek to avoid the need for synthetic treatment of their crops. They do this by spacing coffee plants normally and not crowding them. They seek to grow coffee in shaded locations which is where coffee normally grows. By using organic fertilizers such as green mulch and manure organic coffee growers maintain a normal balance of nature in their fields and still produce an excellent product.
Tikapapa. linking urban consumers and andean producers with the biodiversity ...Jorge Luis Alonso
In the last decades, Perú’s potato consumption has decreased, as opposed to that of rice and noodles which have received a great deal of commercial support. This trend is detrimental to thousands of families who produce potatoes in the High-Andean regions and does not take advantage of the high nutritional quality offered by the diversity of native potato. With the purpose of changing this situation, the International Potato Center (CIP), the Ministry of Agriculture, producers, retailers, processors and supermarkets have worked together in the development of products that serve to modernize the image of the Peruvian potato. One direct outcome from this effort is T’ikapapa, a marketing concept that seeks to promote the commercialization of exquisite and nourishing native potatoes with a new image in Lima’s supermarkets.
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An overview of chickpea improvement program of ethiopia #TropicallegumesTropical Legumes III
The chickpea improvement program released 24 improved varieties (17 national and 7 regional)
The released/pipeline varieties have traits such as:
• large seed (64 g/100 seed weight)
• Disease resistance (Ascochyta blight/Fusarium wilt)
• Drought tolerance (MABC)
• Early maturing
• High yielding
• Machine harvestable
• Heat tolerant
The average yield gain due to these varieties is 2-3 fold over landrace varieties
Projects such as TL II have aggressively supported variety development, release and dissemination through integrated seed systems
Integration of the formal and informal seed production and distribution system has enhanced availability
With the uptake of these varieties and associated production packages, the national productivity has been on steady increase.
Malawi officially releases its first improved chickpea and finger millet vari...ICRISAT
The 2019 Annual Report will take you through major impacts achieved primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia with spillover benefits in other countries. A Quick Stats sheet will assist you in gauging the work across the Sustainable Development Goals and will see you surfing the big numbers – thousands of seed samples shared by our gene bank, millions of hectares covered by agri-food system projects, and a hundred million reached through digital initiatives. A handy lift-out on modernizing breeding will walk you through the biggest initiative of 2019. Separate sections in the report will acquaint you with milestones achieved by the research programs, the CRP Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals led by ICRISAT, the Smart Food initiative and of course, the important finances, human resources and other corporate details.
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Sweet ways to sorghum success in integrating crops and livestock thanks to hi...ICRISAT
Sweet sorghum has long been grown on a small scale in many countries of West and Central Africa (WCA) where its stems have been used as treats, especially by children, courtesy of a high content of juice and sugar for energy sourcing. Grain has been regarded as useless for food because of its flouriness, very small size and usual attack by grain mold. However, dwindling pasture area and increasing cattle numbers mean that farmers are increasingly using crop residues to feed animals, especially during dry seasons, and they have started to request varieties combining grain and stover qualities.
Sweetpotato: Enhancing food and feed in smallholder systems in Eastern AfricaILRI
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http://buyorganiccoffee.org/724/organic-coffee-growers/
Organic Coffee Growers
The work of organic coffee growers is to produce excellent coffee using sustainable farming practices. The work of organic coffee growers is to bring healthy organic coffee to your table while preserving Mother Earth. Organic coffee growers are commonly certified by the United States Department of Agriculture or one of its affiliates for the USA and by the various certifying agencies for Japan, the European Union, or specific coffee chains. Organic coffee certification guarantees that coffee is grown, picked, processed, stored, shipped, and roasted separate from regular coffee. Certification guarantees that organic coffee is grown sufficiently far from regular coffee so that herbicides, pesticides, and other substances sprayed on regular coffee do not drift onto the organic area. The work of organic coffee growers results in a product free of the more than 100 impurities found in regular coffee and still full of antioxidants that can improve and prolong life.
Growing Coffee and Preserving the Earth
Farmers work with a limited amount of land and limited resources. They need to keep costs down and produce a product that sells for enough to pay the bills and generate a profit. Unfortunately, this often means using various chemicals to enhance plant growth and retard or kill pests and plant disease. These substances often remain in the soil, remain in the food, and help create new and stronger pests and diseases through survival of the fittest (bugs and diseases). Organic coffee growers seek to avoid the need for synthetic treatment of their crops. They do this by spacing coffee plants normally and not crowding them. They seek to grow coffee in shaded locations which is where coffee normally grows. By using organic fertilizers such as green mulch and manure organic coffee growers maintain a normal balance of nature in their fields and still produce an excellent product.
Tikapapa. linking urban consumers and andean producers with the biodiversity ...Jorge Luis Alonso
In the last decades, Perú’s potato consumption has decreased, as opposed to that of rice and noodles which have received a great deal of commercial support. This trend is detrimental to thousands of families who produce potatoes in the High-Andean regions and does not take advantage of the high nutritional quality offered by the diversity of native potato. With the purpose of changing this situation, the International Potato Center (CIP), the Ministry of Agriculture, producers, retailers, processors and supermarkets have worked together in the development of products that serve to modernize the image of the Peruvian potato. One direct outcome from this effort is T’ikapapa, a marketing concept that seeks to promote the commercialization of exquisite and nourishing native potatoes with a new image in Lima’s supermarkets.
Opportunities for feeding forages to pigs in UgandaILRI
Poster by Brigitte L. Maass, Jolly M. Kabirizi, Danilo Pezo, Natalie Carter, Emily Ouma, Emmanuel Zziwa and Wanjiku L. Chiuri. 2014. Opportunities for feeding forages to pigs in Uganda. Poster presented at Tropentage 2014, Prague, Czech Republic, 17-19 September 2014.
An overview of chickpea improvement program of ethiopia #TropicallegumesTropical Legumes III
The chickpea improvement program released 24 improved varieties (17 national and 7 regional)
The released/pipeline varieties have traits such as:
• large seed (64 g/100 seed weight)
• Disease resistance (Ascochyta blight/Fusarium wilt)
• Drought tolerance (MABC)
• Early maturing
• High yielding
• Machine harvestable
• Heat tolerant
The average yield gain due to these varieties is 2-3 fold over landrace varieties
Projects such as TL II have aggressively supported variety development, release and dissemination through integrated seed systems
Integration of the formal and informal seed production and distribution system has enhanced availability
With the uptake of these varieties and associated production packages, the national productivity has been on steady increase.
Malawi officially releases its first improved chickpea and finger millet vari...ICRISAT
The 2019 Annual Report will take you through major impacts achieved primarily in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia with spillover benefits in other countries. A Quick Stats sheet will assist you in gauging the work across the Sustainable Development Goals and will see you surfing the big numbers – thousands of seed samples shared by our gene bank, millions of hectares covered by agri-food system projects, and a hundred million reached through digital initiatives. A handy lift-out on modernizing breeding will walk you through the biggest initiative of 2019. Separate sections in the report will acquaint you with milestones achieved by the research programs, the CRP Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals led by ICRISAT, the Smart Food initiative and of course, the important finances, human resources and other corporate details.
Country Status Reports on Underutilized Crops by Kuldeep Singh, Indiaapaari
Country Status Reports on Underutilized Crops by Kuldeep Singh, India - Regional Expert Consultation on Underutilized Crops for Food and Nutritional Security in Asia and the Pacific November 13-15, 2017, Bangkok
Country Status Reports on Underutilized Crops by Kuldeep Singh, India
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ICRISAT Research Program West and Central Africa 2016 Highlights- First Multipurpose Sweet Sorghum Varieties Released in West Africa for Crop and Livestock Integration
1. 6 Research Program WCA, Highlights 2016
First Multipurpose Sweet Sorghum
Varieties Released in West Africa for
Crop and Livestock Integration
A tasty treat for man and beast is being
made even sweeter for all consumers thanks
to a breeding program at ICRISAT-Mali.
And the latest improved varieties of sweet
sorghum can be used to supply juice for
syrup, bioethanol and beer production as well
as being enjoyed in more traditional grain forms
by growers and as fodder by their livestock.
Sorghum, occupying more than 27 million
ha in West Africa along with pearl millet, is
principally grown for its grain used for human
consumption, but the stover is increasingly used
in livestock feeding. Sweet sorghum constitutes
a minor crop, grown in general around houses
with the juicy and sweet stem either sold or self
consumed by the growers as treats. Livestock
enjoy the stover for its sweetness
and high digestibility.
As a result, ICRISAT-Mali started a sweet
sorghum breeding program to develop varieties
combining higher grain yield as well as greater
stover yields and qualities while maintaining
juicy and sweet stems. The first set of these
lines was evaluated using a farmer participatory
approach and the farmers’ preferred varieties
registered in the West African regional catalogue
in 2016, and released in Mali.
Sweet sorghum landraces were obtained
from the ICRISAT Genebank for evaluation
and used in the breeding program. Some of
these varieties (ICSR 93034, SPV 422 and
IS23541) and Malian sweet sorghum landraces
(F60, F221) were crossed to grain sorghum
to develop multipurpose sweet sorghum. The
Genebank’s sweet sorghum and the new sweet
sorghum developed were then tested on-station
Credit: Baloua Nebie,
ICRISAT
Farmers appreciating
multipurpose sweet
sorghum in the field,
Koulikoro, Mali.
Photo
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and two years successively on-farm in five agro-
ecological zones in Mali, for their agronomic
performance and their adaptation to farmers’
conditions and needs.
In 2015 and 2016, around 560 farmers
appreciated varieties and voted in the field for
each variety with white, yellow and red cards.
Farmers’ preference was then calculated as
follows:
Farmers’ appreciation was mainly based on
number of grains per panicle/grain yield,
variety duration, number of green leaves, etc.
Photo 2 shows farmers appreciating/voting
for new varieties in their field.
Where,
NWC: number of white cards
NYC: number of yellow cards
NRC: number of red cards
Farmers’ appreciation
of varieties in the
field. Fadda is a hybrid
sorghum used as check
and Tieble is the local
check.
Figure
2
Achievements
Six Ethiopian sweet sorghum from the ICRISAT
Genebank were identified in 2010–2012 thanks
to farmers’ assessments to be mainly used for
human consumption, livestock feeding and
bioethanol production through Mali Biocarburant
SA, which is also producing biodiesel from
Jatropha curcas plants. Some of these varieties
included in the trials in 2015 and 2016 were
again appreciated by 67% of farmers (Tiokala
and Jigikala) (Figure 2). Zalatimi was less
appreciated because of its red grain but this
colour is well appreciated in the zones where
sorghum beer is made.
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The first set of eight multipurpose
sweet sorghums was registered in the
regional seed catalogue. Breeder seed
and foundation seed of these varieties
are available for sharing with breeding
programs, farmers’ seed cooperatives
and seed companies. Ongoing efforts set
out to diversify the sweet sorghum pool,
including hybrids and varieties with high
micronutrient content in the grain and in
the syrup made from the stem juice.
Varieties Pedigree
Specific trait (Brix = sugar
concentration in the juice)
Grain yield on
station (t/ha) Other traits
Jigikala IS23562 Brix ≥ 15% 2 Juicy, stay-green
Kala wassa IS23555 Brix ≥ 15% 2 Juicy, stay-green
Tiokala IS23525 Brix ≥ 15% 2 Juicy, stay-green
Pitikala IS23541 Brix≥ 15% 2.4 Juicy, stay-green
Siaroukala ICSR 93034 Brix ≥ 13% 2 Juicy, stay-green
Zalatimi IS23519 Brix ≥ 16% 2.5 Juicy, stay-green
Loubatimi
F2
([F3
SPV 422/Lata]/
TIEBLE)-1/3-3
Brix = 16% 2
Juicy, stay-green,
Striga resistant
Soubatimi
BCF2
([F3Soumba/ ICSR
93034]/Soumba)-1-1/6-1
Brix = 16% 3 Juicy, stay-green
Acknowledgments
We acknowledge farmers from Beleko,
Dioila, Kita, Koulikoro, Koutiala and
their respective cooperatives/unions,
which conducted these trials. We also
acknowledge the McKnight Foundation for
the financial support through the projects:
“Dual-Purpose Sorghum and Cowpeas”
and “Seed systems III”.
Characteristics of
multipurpose sweet
sorghum varieties
registered in the
West African seed
catalogue in 2016.
Table 1
the lowest appreciation in terms of agronomic
performance but was identified for its grain quality.
Table 1 presents some traits and performances
of the first multipurpose sweet sorghum
varieties released in Mali, in the 800-1000 mm
rainfall zone.
Both new varieties, Soubatimi and Loubatimi,
were registered in the West African seed
catalogue; breeder and foundation seeds were
produced on station in 2016 (Photo 3). At least
10 ha of certified seed production by farmers
are projected for the 2017 rainy season.
Among the new multipurpose sweet sorghum
varieties developed using grain sorghum and
sweet sorghum landraces from ICRISAT’s
Genebank, Soubatimi was the most preferred by
farmers (75%) because of its high grain yield
(3 tons on-station and 2 tons on-farm) and its
‘stay-green’ trait. This variety was the most
preferred both by men and women across all
zones (Koutiala, Beleko, Dioila, Koulikoro and Kita).
Jiguikala, the second most appreciated variety,
attracted 67% of farmers, almost the same as
the local check Tieble (66%). Loubatimi recorded
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Credit: Baloua Nebie,
ICRISAT
Soubatimi
foundation seed
production in
off-season.
Photo
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