Training facilitator, Dr Jane Wright, talking to participants. Inqaba biotec West Africa in collaboration with IITA organized an Introductory Phylogenetics Workshop on 24-29January, at IITA, Ibadan. The workshop was attended by 15 laboratory scientists from various laboratories in Nigeria.…
Atser, presenting the findings of the extension study in China. A study on the training needs assessment of extension agents in Nigeria has revealed several gaps and constraints that have limited the effectiveness of the extension service in the…
Agricultural investors from Poland have indicated interest in partnering with IITA to help in improving Nigeria’s agricultural development. This was announced during the visit of a three-person team of Polish investors led by Ewa Olszewska, the International Project Manager,…
Chrys Akem reiterates the importance of promoting soybean at the workshop. The IITA/SARD-SC maize system soybean production enhancement planning workshop was held 1-4 February in Abuja to promote soybean cultivation and utilization in Nigeria. The workshop became imperative because…
The First World Congress on Root and Tuber Crops held in Nanning, China, highlighted the enormous amount of work being done by the research community on these important crops. The World Congress on Root and Tuber Crops (WCRTC), held in…
IITA Forest Reserve. Reporting on the strategies employed in rehabilitating and conserving four rainforests in Benin and southwestern Nigeria, Deni Bown, Head, IITA Forest Unit; Peter Neuenschwander, IITA Benin; and partners from CREDI-ONG demonstrated that a combination of closed-off…
A big male red-belly holds court and protects his female and young, who sit in the trees above the well and look back at the trainees. A workshop was organized at IITA-Benin on 7-14 January to strengthen the research…
Scientists from the Crops Research Institute (CSIR-CRI), Ghana, visited the newly established Aeroponics Facility at the National Root Crop Research Institute (NRCRI) Umudike last December to view some of the progress being made by their Nigerian counterparts on pre-basic…