Sorghum and Millets Improvement Programme

Sorghum and Millets Improvement Programme Our Goal: Shift Sorghum and Millets from subsistence crops to value-added cash crops

OUR GOAL: Shift Sorghum and Millets from subsistence crops to value-added cash crops. Main Objectives:
Develop sorghum varieties and hybrids with improved quality traits for food, feed and fuel. Develop high yielding resilient sorghum varieties and hybrids that are widely adapted
Enhance disease and pest resistance with improved germplasm and elite lines. Specific Objectives:
Enhance Food and F

eed Quality-Nutrition value, Malting quality, Sugar % and Forage quality
Enhance Abiotic Stress Tolerance [climate smart crops]-Soil Acidity, Drought, Waterlogging, Cold, Heat etc
Enhance Biotic Stress Tolerance-Pests and Diseases. Collaborative Activities:
Technical support to other research and training institutions within and outside Zambia
Technical support to industries involved in sorghum processing [value addition]
Technical support to information dissemination
Technical support to farmers

VISION: TO CONTRIBUTE TO NATIONAL AGRICULTURE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

Grain and forage sorghums, Sorghum and Millets Improvement Programme (SMIP)
08/04/2020

Grain and forage sorghums, Sorghum and Millets Improvement Programme (SMIP)

The beauty of sorghum perfectly capable ratooning.
21/09/2018

The beauty of sorghum perfectly capable ratooning.

Developing new sorghum inbreed lines for new hybrids
21/09/2018

Developing new sorghum inbreed lines for new hybrids

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Golden Valley Research Station, Great North Road, Central Province
Chibombo
10101

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Monday 08:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 08:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 08:00 - 17:00
Thursday 08:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00

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