{"id":447,"date":"2018-05-03T09:06:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T09:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/?p=447"},"modified":"2018-05-03T09:45:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T09:45:55","slug":"west-africa-to-witness-more-increases-in-maize-opvs-hybrids-badu-apraku-iita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/2018\/05\/03\/west-africa-to-witness-more-increases-in-maize-opvs-hybrids-badu-apraku-iita\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa to Witness More Increases in Maize OPVs & Hybrids…. Badu-Apraku"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the Stress-Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) Project holds its West African Regional Planning and Review Meeting in IITA, Ibadan<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Dr. Badu-Apraku,\u00a0 a maize breeder and researcher at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, has said very emphatically that West Africa is set to witness more increases in maize OPVs (open-pollinated varieties) and hybrids, towards boosting agricultural productivity the subregion. This he said at the opening ceremony of the West African Regional Planning and Review meeting of the Stress-Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) in IITA from 1st to 6th May 2018.<\/p>\n

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The meeting, which is the forum for reviewing the project activities of 2017 and planning for those of 2018, had participants from four West African countries: Nigeria, Benin, Mali and Ghana.\u00a0The International Director of the STMA Project, Dr. Cosmos Magorokosho was also present at the meeting.<\/p>\n

\"\"The various countries reported increased activities in their varietal development and dissemination across the region. Nigeria released about 2 stress-tolerant varieties in 2017. The Nigerian partners\u00a0include: Institute for\u00a0Agricultural Research, Zaria; National Agricultural Extension and Research Liaison Services (NAERLS),\u00a0Zaria; University of Ilorin;\u00a0Institute for Agricultural\u00a0Research and Training (IAR&T), Ibadan; Premier Seeds, Maslaha Seeds, Tecni Seeds, National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB), and National Agricultural Seeds Council (NASC).<\/p>\n

\"\"The Nigeria country coordinator of the project is Dr Muhydeen Oyekunle, a maize breeder and scientist at the Institute for Agricultural Research, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.<\/p>\n

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As the Stress-Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) Project holds its West African Regional Planning and Review Meeting in IITA, Ibadan Dr. Badu-Apraku,\u00a0 a maize breeder and researcher at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, has said very emphatically that West Africa is set to witness more increases in maize OPVs (open-pollinated varieties) and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-news","pmpro-has-access","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1.jpg",3406,1355,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1.jpg",3406,1355,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1.jpg",3406,1355,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-300x119.jpg",300,119,true],"large":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-1024x407.jpg",1024,407,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1.jpg",1536,611,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1.jpg",2048,815,false],"et-builder-post-main-image":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-400x250.jpg",400,250,true],"et-builder-post-main-image-fullwidth":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-1080x675.jpg",1080,675,true],"et-builder-portfolio-image":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-400x284.jpg",400,284,true],"et-builder-portfolio-image-single":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-1080x430.jpg",1080,430,true],"et-builder-gallery-image-portrait":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1.jpg",400,159,false],"extra-image-huge":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-1280x768.jpg",1280,768,true],"extra-image-single-post":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-1280x640.jpg",1280,640,true],"extra-image-medium":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-627x376.jpg",627,376,true],"extra-image-small":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-440x264.jpg",440,264,true],"extra-image-square-medium":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-440x440.jpg",440,440,true],"extra-image-square-small":["https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"cikm","author_link":"https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/author\/cikm\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"Features<\/a> News<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"As the Stress-Tolerant Maize for Africa (STMA) Project holds its West African Regional Planning and Review Meeting in IITA, Ibadan Dr. Badu-Apraku,\u00a0 a maize breeder and researcher at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Ibadan, has said very emphatically that West Africa is set to witness more increases in maize OPVs (open-pollinated varieties) and…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nifaas.org.ng\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}