The Ghanaian Legacy Crop Improvement Centre (LCIC) has made a breakthrough in agricultural research by developing high-quality new maize seed varieties that require less application of chemical fertiliser. The varieties hailed as "gamechangers" for Ghana were introduced to smallholder farmers in the Fanteakwa North District and included "Legacy 2" [white…
Some farmers in the Wa West District have been introduced to stress-tolerant hybrid maize varieties during a farmers' field day in the Yeleyiri community. This was when a team of researchers on the Accelerated Genetic Gain (AGG) project embarked on a monitoring visit to some trial fields of the stress-tolerant…