Agriculture & Food Security

Unlike conventional pearl millet hybrids that involve two parents, a three-way hybrid combines three parental lines, enabling the integration of multiple traits.

The larger maize area signals the potential for improved raw material supply in 2026, which could ease pressure on millers and feed manufacturers.

Farmers attribute the declinene to increase in input prices, lack of financing, and the collapse of irrigation systems.

This initiative is part of the government’s goal to cultivate at least 7, 400 hectares of lowland rice within five years.

Instead of distributing imported seed, implementers contract local suppliers, track transactions electronically, and allow farmers to select the crops most suitable to their soils and family needs.