• Latest
  • Trending
Empowering Crop Breeding: Enhancing Breeding Data Quality and Trial Management Through Mechanization

Empowering Crop Breeding: Enhancing Breeding Data Quality and Trial Management Through Mechanization

May 16, 2024
Garlic and Onion Import Surge: Kyrgyzstan’s 360% Increase Signals Deeper Agricultural Challenges

Garlic and Onion Import Surge: Kyrgyzstan’s 360% Increase Signals Deeper Agricultural Challenges

September 9, 2025
Beyond the Field: How Cooperative-Led Education is Revolutionizing Garlic and Onion Production

Beyond the Field: How Cooperative-Led Education is Revolutionizing Garlic and Onion Production

September 8, 2025
Heritage Garlic Under Threat: The Clash Between Preservation and Progress in Danyang’s Premium Garlic Project

Heritage Garlic Under Threat: The Clash Between Preservation and Progress in Danyang’s Premium Garlic Project

September 8, 2025
From Reject to Premium Feed: How Uiseong County is Transforming Substandard Garlic into High-Value Animal Nutrition

From Reject to Premium Feed: How Uiseong County is Transforming Substandard Garlic into High-Value Animal Nutrition

September 8, 2025
The Garlic Guardian: How One Spanish Chef is Rescuing a Culinary Heritage and What It Teaches Us About Agricultural Biodiversity

The Garlic Guardian: How One Spanish Chef is Rescuing a Culinary Heritage and What It Teaches Us About Agricultural Biodiversity

September 8, 2025
Beyond the Finish Line: How Garlic-Themed Marathons Are Boosting Agricultural Communities

Beyond the Finish Line: How Garlic-Themed Marathons Are Boosting Agricultural Communities

September 7, 2025
Pacific Northwest Sugar Beets: Record Yield Potential Meets Water Management Challenges

Pacific Northwest Sugar Beets: Record Yield Potential Meets Water Management Challenges

September 7, 2025
Navigating Risk and Reward: British Sugar’s New Contract Options Reshape Grower Economics

Navigating Risk and Reward: British Sugar’s New Contract Options Reshape Grower Economics

September 6, 2025
British Sugar’s 2024 Campaign: Strategic Staggering of Factory Openings Optimizes Harvest Logistics

British Sugar’s 2024 Campaign: Strategic Staggering of Factory Openings Optimizes Harvest Logistics

September 6, 2025
Mechanization Multiplier: How Leningrad Oblast Achieved a 17x Labor Efficiency Boost in Beet Harvest

Mechanization Multiplier: How Leningrad Oblast Achieved a 17x Labor Efficiency Boost in Beet Harvest

September 5, 2025
The Shrinking Beet: How Retail Demand is Reshaping Agronomic Practices in Table Beet Production

The Shrinking Beet: How Retail Demand is Reshaping Agronomic Practices in Table Beet Production

September 5, 2025
The 1.6 Kg Beetroot: Analyzing a Backyard Anomaly and Its Lessons for Commercial Production

The 1.6 Kg Beetroot: Analyzing a Backyard Anomaly and Its Lessons for Commercial Production

September 4, 2025
  • Company
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Vegetables News
  • NEWS
    Garlic and Onion Import Surge: Kyrgyzstan’s 360% Increase Signals Deeper Agricultural Challenges

    Garlic and Onion Import Surge: Kyrgyzstan’s 360% Increase Signals Deeper Agricultural Challenges

    Beyond the Field: How Cooperative-Led Education is Revolutionizing Garlic and Onion Production

    Beyond the Field: How Cooperative-Led Education is Revolutionizing Garlic and Onion Production

    Heritage Garlic Under Threat: The Clash Between Preservation and Progress in Danyang’s Premium Garlic Project

    Heritage Garlic Under Threat: The Clash Between Preservation and Progress in Danyang’s Premium Garlic Project

    From Reject to Premium Feed: How Uiseong County is Transforming Substandard Garlic into High-Value Animal Nutrition

    From Reject to Premium Feed: How Uiseong County is Transforming Substandard Garlic into High-Value Animal Nutrition

    The Garlic Guardian: How One Spanish Chef is Rescuing a Culinary Heritage and What It Teaches Us About Agricultural Biodiversity

    The Garlic Guardian: How One Spanish Chef is Rescuing a Culinary Heritage and What It Teaches Us About Agricultural Biodiversity

    Beyond the Finish Line: How Garlic-Themed Marathons Are Boosting Agricultural Communities

    Beyond the Finish Line: How Garlic-Themed Marathons Are Boosting Agricultural Communities

    Pacific Northwest Sugar Beets: Record Yield Potential Meets Water Management Challenges

    Pacific Northwest Sugar Beets: Record Yield Potential Meets Water Management Challenges

    Navigating Risk and Reward: British Sugar’s New Contract Options Reshape Grower Economics

    Navigating Risk and Reward: British Sugar’s New Contract Options Reshape Grower Economics

    British Sugar’s 2024 Campaign: Strategic Staggering of Factory Openings Optimizes Harvest Logistics

    British Sugar’s 2024 Campaign: Strategic Staggering of Factory Openings Optimizes Harvest Logistics

  • AGROTECHNOLOGY
    • All
    • Climate
    • Crop protection
    • digital (smart)
    • dron
    • Fertilizer
    • Research
    • weed
    Beyond the Field: How Cooperative-Led Education is Revolutionizing Garlic and Onion Production

    Beyond the Field: How Cooperative-Led Education is Revolutionizing Garlic and Onion Production

    Heritage Garlic Under Threat: The Clash Between Preservation and Progress in Danyang’s Premium Garlic Project

    Heritage Garlic Under Threat: The Clash Between Preservation and Progress in Danyang’s Premium Garlic Project

    Navigating Risk and Reward: British Sugar’s New Contract Options Reshape Grower Economics

    Navigating Risk and Reward: British Sugar’s New Contract Options Reshape Grower Economics

    Israel’s Water Crisis Reaches Breaking Point: Agriculture Bears Brunt of Unprecedented Drought

    Israel’s Water Crisis Reaches Breaking Point: Agriculture Bears Brunt of Unprecedented Drought

    Kazakhstan’s Agri-Strategic Pivot: A Data-Driven Shift from Wheat to Value-Added Crops

    Kazakhstan’s Agri-Strategic Pivot: A Data-Driven Shift from Wheat to Value-Added Crops

    Pushing the Climate Envelope: Kaliningrad Farmer Targets 15-Ton Watermelon Harvest

    Pushing the Climate Envelope: Kaliningrad Farmer Targets 15-Ton Watermelon Harvest

    Hungary’s Sour Cherry Crisis: Frost Decimates Harvest While Global Demand Soars

    Hungary’s Sour Cherry Crisis: Frost Decimates Harvest While Global Demand Soars

    Cabbage Compound Breaks Down Dental Plaque by 90% – A Game Changer for Oral Health and Agriculture

    Cabbage Compound Breaks Down Dental Plaque by 90% – A Game Changer for Oral Health and Agriculture

    Winter Warriors: The Cold-Hardy Vegetables That Defy Frozen Soil and Keep Growing

    Winter Warriors: The Cold-Hardy Vegetables That Defy Frozen Soil and Keep Growing

  • IRRIGATION
  • SEED PRODUCTION
    • Vegetables
    • Fruit
  • PROCESSING
No Result
View All Result
  • NEWS
    Garlic and Onion Import Surge: Kyrgyzstan’s 360% Increase Signals Deeper Agricultural Challenges

    Garlic and Onion Import Surge: Kyrgyzstan’s 360% Increase Signals Deeper Agricultural Challenges

    Beyond the Field: How Cooperative-Led Education is Revolutionizing Garlic and Onion Production

    Beyond the Field: How Cooperative-Led Education is Revolutionizing Garlic and Onion Production

    Heritage Garlic Under Threat: The Clash Between Preservation and Progress in Danyang’s Premium Garlic Project

    Heritage Garlic Under Threat: The Clash Between Preservation and Progress in Danyang’s Premium Garlic Project

    From Reject to Premium Feed: How Uiseong County is Transforming Substandard Garlic into High-Value Animal Nutrition

    From Reject to Premium Feed: How Uiseong County is Transforming Substandard Garlic into High-Value Animal Nutrition

    The Garlic Guardian: How One Spanish Chef is Rescuing a Culinary Heritage and What It Teaches Us About Agricultural Biodiversity

    The Garlic Guardian: How One Spanish Chef is Rescuing a Culinary Heritage and What It Teaches Us About Agricultural Biodiversity

    Beyond the Finish Line: How Garlic-Themed Marathons Are Boosting Agricultural Communities

    Beyond the Finish Line: How Garlic-Themed Marathons Are Boosting Agricultural Communities

    Pacific Northwest Sugar Beets: Record Yield Potential Meets Water Management Challenges

    Pacific Northwest Sugar Beets: Record Yield Potential Meets Water Management Challenges

    Navigating Risk and Reward: British Sugar’s New Contract Options Reshape Grower Economics

    Navigating Risk and Reward: British Sugar’s New Contract Options Reshape Grower Economics

    British Sugar’s 2024 Campaign: Strategic Staggering of Factory Openings Optimizes Harvest Logistics

    British Sugar’s 2024 Campaign: Strategic Staggering of Factory Openings Optimizes Harvest Logistics

  • AGROTECHNOLOGY
    • All
    • Climate
    • Crop protection
    • digital (smart)
    • dron
    • Fertilizer
    • Research
    • weed
    Beyond the Field: How Cooperative-Led Education is Revolutionizing Garlic and Onion Production

    Beyond the Field: How Cooperative-Led Education is Revolutionizing Garlic and Onion Production

    Heritage Garlic Under Threat: The Clash Between Preservation and Progress in Danyang’s Premium Garlic Project

    Heritage Garlic Under Threat: The Clash Between Preservation and Progress in Danyang’s Premium Garlic Project

    Navigating Risk and Reward: British Sugar’s New Contract Options Reshape Grower Economics

    Navigating Risk and Reward: British Sugar’s New Contract Options Reshape Grower Economics

    Israel’s Water Crisis Reaches Breaking Point: Agriculture Bears Brunt of Unprecedented Drought

    Israel’s Water Crisis Reaches Breaking Point: Agriculture Bears Brunt of Unprecedented Drought

    Kazakhstan’s Agri-Strategic Pivot: A Data-Driven Shift from Wheat to Value-Added Crops

    Kazakhstan’s Agri-Strategic Pivot: A Data-Driven Shift from Wheat to Value-Added Crops

    Pushing the Climate Envelope: Kaliningrad Farmer Targets 15-Ton Watermelon Harvest

    Pushing the Climate Envelope: Kaliningrad Farmer Targets 15-Ton Watermelon Harvest

    Hungary’s Sour Cherry Crisis: Frost Decimates Harvest While Global Demand Soars

    Hungary’s Sour Cherry Crisis: Frost Decimates Harvest While Global Demand Soars

    Cabbage Compound Breaks Down Dental Plaque by 90% – A Game Changer for Oral Health and Agriculture

    Cabbage Compound Breaks Down Dental Plaque by 90% – A Game Changer for Oral Health and Agriculture

    Winter Warriors: The Cold-Hardy Vegetables That Defy Frozen Soil and Keep Growing

    Winter Warriors: The Cold-Hardy Vegetables That Defy Frozen Soil and Keep Growing

  • IRRIGATION
  • SEED PRODUCTION
    • Vegetables
    • Fruit
  • PROCESSING
No Result
View All Result
Vegetables News
Home AGROTECHNOLOGY

Empowering Crop Breeding: Enhancing Breeding Data Quality and Trial Management Through Mechanization

by Виктор Ковалев
May 16, 2024
in AGROTECHNOLOGY
0
Empowering Crop Breeding: Enhancing Breeding Data Quality and Trial Management Through Mechanization

Advancing Agricultural Efficiency with Cutting-Edge Technology and Skills

Ensuring top-notch equipment reaches breeding research stations worldwide is vital, but equally crucial is empowering trialling and nursery teams with the skills to continuously generate high-quality breeding data.

Effective management of breeding trials is essential for establishing selection conditions that lead to distinct trait expression among genotypes. Good trial management minimizes experimental errors, thereby aiding in the identification of superior genotypes.

Mechanizing the processes contributes to precise trial management and facilitates operations. For instance, machine seeding guarantees consistent seed depth and density, and uniformity in planting. Combine harvesters can be outfitted with grain cleaners, onboard weighing systems, and sensors to assess grain moisture and weight, significantly streamlining data collection processes.

These pieces of equipment, combined with the technical knowledge to use them, ensure the quality of the prediction data, which is crucial for making informed decisions about which crop varieties to select and further develop for improvement.

Based on this observation, the Crops to End Hunger (CtEH) program provides a combination of appropriate equipment and technical expertise to crop breeding programs worldwide. CGIAR Breeding and Research Services, implementing CtEH, just concluded a hands-on training session as part of the CtEH Facilities Upgrade and Mechanization Improvement project, which aims to modernize key plant breeding research stations across the globe for higher genetic gains.

The result? Empowering crucial breeding stations throughout Africa to generate accurate trialling and nursery data on essential crops such as yam, rice, cassava, maize, and more. This, in turn, accelerates the development of improved varieties at reduced time and costs.

The training sessions brought together 83 participants from 12 African countries, representing trialling and nursery teams from various CGIAR Centers and partner institutions. These included AfricaRice, IITA, CIMMYT, as well as CSIR-SARI and CSIR-CRI (Ghana), KARLO (Kenya), and NARO (Uganda).

The trainers addressed numerous activities essential to trialling and nursery operations on breeding stations, such as: tractor driving, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) usage, chemical spraying techniques, seed calibration procedures, sowing machine utilization, and more.

A Myriad of Activities Tailored to African Crop Breeding Programs’ Needs

Addressing the unique needs and challenges of African breeding programs, the CtEH Trialling and Nursery training program conducted four sessions across the continent, spanning Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe.

During the sessions, participants benefitted from customized training, focusing on specific aspects of their work and crop varieties.

Notably, special attention was given to gender mainstreaming, reflecting the commitment of CtEH to empower women in technical roles within plant breeding stations. This included breaking gender stereotypes by providing training in tractor driving, a skill traditionally seen as male-dominated but crucial for trialling and nursery work. In Kenya, participants acquired the skills to calibrate maize seeds, using new sowing machinery provided by CtEH. Seed calibration ensures optimal spacing between seeds and planting depth, which is vital for maximizing yield and enhancing survival rates in trials. Weed management is crucial for the integrity of breeding trials, especially in large-scale operations where manual weeding is impractical. Herbicide tolerance may also be a desired trait of the studied varieties.

Ensuring the safety of all personnel involved in these activities is paramount. Thus, it’s imperative for every breeding station to equip its workforce with Personal Protection Equipment (PPE).

Proper utilization of PPE, safe chemical application practices, agronomic techniques, and the calibration of herbicide boom sprayers to ensure efficient herbicide application per hectare in the field were covered, among other things, by the training in Zimbabwe. Rice is cultivated in 40 out of 54 countries in Africa, serving as the primary activity and income source for over 35 million smallholder farmers.

To develop the best rice varieties for the continent, cutting-edge equipment is funded by CtEH, supporting the trialling and nursery activities of Africa Rice teams across Côte d’Ivoire, Madagascar, Nigeria, and Senegal. This work has already yielded results, as in just two years, and with support from Facilities Upgrade and Mechanization Improvement, Africa Rice teams have already developed superior rice varieties.

Participants in the training session held in Côte d’Ivoire enjoyed customized rice-related activities, including learning how to maneuver row seeders for trial seed planting, utilizing manual seeders and single-row equipment for small plot cultivation, and mastering the operation of tractors in rice paddies to optimize productivity, among other skills.

Overall satisfaction rates were remarkably high at the conclusion of the training sessions, with participants expressing a substantial improvement in their comprehension of the training content, its relevance, the clarity of instruction from the trainers, and their confidence in applying the acquired skills to real-world trialling and nursery work.

Previous Post

Unlocking Vietnam’s fruit export potential: A closer look at the growth of the durian industry

Next Post

In India, Vegetables Feel the Heat: Rising Prices Amidst Heatwave Conditions

Next Post
In India, Vegetables Feel the Heat: Rising Prices Amidst Heatwave Conditions

In India, Vegetables Feel the Heat: Rising Prices Amidst Heatwave Conditions

  • Home
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Policy of vegetables.news app

© 2020-2024 VEGETABLES NEWS

No Result
View All Result
  • NEWS
  • AGROTECHNOLOGY
  • IRRIGATION
  • SEED PRODUCTION
    • Vegetables
    • Fruit
  • PROCESSING

© 2020-2024 VEGETABLES NEWS