Restore land to sustain life: Inspiration from Yewol for all of us
Terraced mountainsides growing a range of crops – cereals, forage and vegetables like carrot and garlic that the people had never seen before; and a wide variety of trees (even apples!) – are a common sight in Yewol today.....
First ever high-yielding chickpea variety developed using marker-assisted backcrossing (MABC) released in Ethiopia
Ethiopia has become the first country in the world to release such a chickpea variety In a first, the National Variety Release Read more...
Fighting the deadly menace of Parthenium grass
To combat a noxious weed like the Parthenium hysterophorus, a multipronged strategy that includes preventive measures, manual uprooting, herbicides and biological control Read more...