{"id":893,"date":"2017-11-15T16:53:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/?p=893"},"modified":"2017-11-15T16:53:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T08:53:08","slug":"new-seed-variety-promises-boost-maize-production-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.agrinoon.com\/agriculture\/2017\/11\/15\/new-seed-variety-promises-boost-maize-production-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"New seed variety promises to boost maize production in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">Keywords:\u00a0Monsanto, White maize cultivar, Kenya<\/div>\n<div id=\"detailbox\" class=\"post-content\">At the beginning of the year, Monsanto launched DK777, a pest-resistant white maize cultivar, in Kenya.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">This cultivar was now also being released in Zambia and Malawi. It would be commercialised in Nigeria and Tanzania in 2018, pending their respective national variety listing processes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">The cultivar had the potential to significantly enhance producers\u2019 income, while boosting regional food security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">This was according to Arthur Schr\u00f6der, product manager of Monsanto Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">Schr\u00f6der told <em>Farmer\u2019s Weekly<\/em> that the variety demonstrated good yield and yield stability, excellent emergence, good general disease-resistance and tolerance to maize lethal necrosis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">It also had excellent standability and good husk cover. As such, it allowed producers to achieve higher yields than would have been possible using conventional seed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">Denis Kachikho is the sales manager for Monsanto in Malawi. He said the cultivar had the ability to produce up to 240, 50kg-bags of maize per hectare, compared with the 180, 50kg-bags per hectare produced on average by most of Monsanto\u2019s other seed cultivars.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">Christopher Kunda is marketing representative for Monsanto in Zambia. Speaking at a recent media briefing in Chisamba, in Zambia, he said that the cultivar was part of Monsanto\u2019s efforts to help the Zambian government fulfil its goal. The goal is achieving bumper harvests.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">As an additional service, Monsanto also provided crop insurance to protect farmers if the seed failed to mature as a result of natural causes: \u201cFarmers will be compensated in the form of new seeds in the event of no rainfall within three weeks after planting,\u201d Kunda explained.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-meta\"><b>Source:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Farmer\u2019s Weekly<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keywords:\u00a0Monsanto, White maize cultivar, Kenya At the beginning of the year, Monsanto launched DK777, a pest-resistant white maize cultivar, in Kenya. This cultivar was now also being released in Zambia and Malawi. It would be commercialised in Nigeria and Tanzania in 2018, pending their respective national variety listing processes. 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