Farmers choose best-adapted varieties for testing

Farmers choose best-adapted varieties for testing

Conservation of agrobiodiversity of local cultivars of millet, maize and sorgum through improved participatory methods

Year of publication 2009

Pages 2p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Edition 1

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Synopsis (short abstract) Visit ITPGRFA site internet. In Senegal, 90 percent of the farming area is dedicated to cereal production. Yet three of the main crops, millet, maize and sorghum, are facing progressive loss of genetic diversity in the fields and low variability which has dire effects on the abilities of farmers to achieve good results in their harvesting seasons. Thus, the Treaty Benefit-sharing Fund Project in Senegal pulled 340 samples of millet, maize and s orghum from a database to discuss their merits with local farmers. They specifically chose samples that still are found in farmers’ fields, not those that only exist in genebanks. This allowed local farmers to offer practical advice as to which ones would be best to include in on-farm testing that would determine which ones were best adapted to climatic conditions and also which ones met the taste demands of consumers. The farmers chose 55 varieties.

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