On 14 July, IITA and partners working under the project Mitigating Cassava Disease Threats for Improved Cassava Production held a community-level forum with the traditional village heads and cassava growers from four districts in the Eastern Province of Zambia.…
August 2014
Prof Patrick Mzee Somora, the Honorable Minister of Planning and Budget of the South Kivu Province, has described IITA as a priority agricultural development actor in the region. He said this during a study visit on 6 August to…
The IITA Kalambo Station has a brand new bus for staff use! The bus will be used for transporting staff to and from the office, which is located about 30 km from Bukavu City. The absence of public transport…
Thirty-three final year students from the University Kongo in Mbanza-Ngungu, DRC, visited the research station of the National Institute of Agricultural Research and Studies (Institut National pour l’Etude et la Recherche Agronomiques, INERA) where IITA-DRC conducts its research activities.…
Financial Management Capacity Building: meeting held for SARD-SC accountants and others
To facilitate smoother fund management and easy financial reporting of the four commodities (maize, rice, wheat, and cassava) under the SARD-SC project, a 3-day session on financial management was held for accountants, some commodity specialists, monitoring and evaluation specialists,…
The battle to control weeds on cassava farms received support from Nigerian engineers who are joining forces with experts from IITA to seek sustainable solutions to the menace. The team of engineers, drawn from academia, IITA, and the public…
IITA is working with local, regional, and international partners to strengthen its cocoa improvement program. In June this year, the germplasm of 14 elite parental clones was acquired from the Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria (CRIN). These are clones…
IITA Youth Agripreneurs have concluded plans to train and empower young people from Borno State, northeastern Nigeria. The proposed 3-week training, scheduled in early September, will equip them with knowledge about modern agricultural practices and entrepreneurial skills that would…