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Written by Olalekan Akinbo
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Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:31 |
 The launching of 3 pro-vitamin A cassava varieties developed by NRCRI and IITA Date: Friday 16th March 2012,
Venue: National Root Crops Research Institute (NRCRI), Umudike, Nigeria.
Special guests:
The Honourable Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr Akinwumi Adesina,
The Honourable Minister of Health, Prof Onyebuchi Chukwu
The Honourable Minister of Education, Prof Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa'i.
Other special guests include:
IITA Director General, Dr Nteranya Sanginga,
Executive Secretary, Agricultural Research Council of Nigeria (ARCN), Professor B.Y. Abubakar
Special video presentation by HarvestPlus DG, Dr. Howdy Bouis
Many others.
Highlights of the programme include:
Launching of the 3 pro-vitamin A cassava varieties
Launching of a platform for effective linkage between Agriculture and Nutrition in Nigeria
Inauguration of a Technical Advisory Committee for effective dissemination of pro-vitamin A cassava in Nigeria
Exhibition of cassava products from pro-vitamin A cassava varieties |
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IB Fieldbook - SOFTWARE TOOLS |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 23 February 2012 14:12 |
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 After many months of intensive development work, numerous testing sessions,invaluable feedback from potential users and several redesigns of structure and functionality, the Integrated Breeding FieldBook is here at long last – a tool that will in time greatly enhance the quality of phenotypic data on which critical breeding decisions are based.
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 23 February 2012 16:28 |
 The IB Workbench is the application for setting up and opening a project workspace for a breeding project. A project workspace specifies the crop, provides access to public crop information, contains a local private database for the project, and gives access to a list of data management and analysis applications. |
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Written by Olalekan Akinbo
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Wednesday, 14 December 2011 15:17 |
Introgression of whitefly (Aleurotrachelus socialis) resistance gene from F1 inter-specific hybrids into commercial cassava Olalekan Akinbo, Maryke Labuschagne and Martin Fregene See More Under Research Highlights.... |
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