IAEA/AFRA Workshop on Seeds and Planting Material Exchange in Africa and the World, RAF/5/056, Buea, Cameroon,28 March-l April 2011

摘要

This workshop will be organized under the regional TC project RAF/5/056 on Increasing Production of Nutritious food through Mutation Breeding and Biotechnology (AFRA III-3). The need for such a workshop was expressed by all participants during the last coordination meeting. In fact, one of the reasons mostly cited as a cause for the poor yields in African agriculture is the poor quality of the seeds and planting material and also the enormous difficulties encountered by breeders and farmers to assess the quality of their seeds, acquire or export good quality seeds and planting material.