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😱🌱 Magic Seed 🌿😱 👀Seeing is believing👀 Certified seed has been experimentally shown to yield > 80% more than farmer-saved seed of the same variety. Compare here certified (right) & farmer saved recycled (left) plants of variety Mkombozi. TARI, Maruku, #Tanzania @JYabeja

🇹🇿🌿Cassava QDS 🚜🌍 Meeting today with the #Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute to brainstorm on ways to enhance last mile delivery of high quality #cassava planting material of improved varieties through the network of >500 Quality Declared Seed (QDS) producers 👍🏼👍🏼

🇹🇿🏆SEED SERVANT 🥈🌿 Dr. Patrick Ngwediagi & his team at the #Tanzania Official Seed Certification Institute got second prize in a recent assessment of performance amongst > 300 #Tanzania government units. #IITA is proud to partner with TOSCI in Tz to take seed systems higher

There are seed producers in Pwani with several improved varieties. If you tell us where you are, we can direct you to the nearest seed producer. You can also try on seedtracker.org and follow links to cassava and cassava map. There is a map showing seed producer locations

🌿🇹🇿 Donor & Do'er 🇳🇬🌱 L➡️R Mercy Diebiru-Ojo (IITA Do'er 🇳🇬) Lateef Sanni (IITA - Do'er 🇳🇬) Lawrence Kent (BMGF Donor 🇺🇸) All working with Tz🇹🇿 partners, MEDA & farmers in the BASICS-II PROJECT, which is making huge progress in developing sustainable #cassava seed systems

🧬 Onwards & Upwards 🧬 How wonderful to have a visit from Gloria Ceasar today. She started out with our team as a Research Technician, but is now training a new cadre of molecular biologists in 🇹🇿 #Tanzania as a Lecturer at the Uni of Dar es Salaam. Taking Tz biotech higher👆🏼

🌿 🇹🇿Breeding Promise🇺🇬 🌿 Previously with @narouganda, now with #IITA, Ismail Kayondo is spearheading @cgiar #cassava breeding work in East Africa. Here with IITA-Tanzania's Edda Mushi in front of a top-performing line in AYT (KBH2020/048) at Chambezi, #Tanzania 🇹🇿 @IITA_CGIAR

🌱🧢 Hats n Cassava 👒🌿 Diversity in Hats moving through the #cassava field! Much like the diversity of skills needed amongst the researchers of national & international institutions partnering to develop resilient varieties that will boost farmer yields & incomes @IITA_CGIAR

🌿😱 CBSD shock 😱🌱 Cassava brown streak virus disease (CBSD) can have devastating pre-harvest impacts for sensitive varieties where inoculum pressure is high. Here, both typical & unusual symptoms in clone KBH2018B/3038 at Chambezi, coastal #Tanzania 🇹🇿 #Cassava @IITA_CGIAR

🌿 Amala Oyeee 🌿 🇮🇹 In #yam country for a few days and really enjoyed this Amala - starchy, flavoursome yam staple with various vegetables & local bean puree Should be healthy too. Same tomorrow, please 🌿🍲🌿🇮🇹

Click on the image to see the whole team 😁🌱😁

🔵 Keeping Food Safe 🔵 Aflasafe is an incredible science-based biological control technology that protects food from fungal toxins. @alexob36 describes #IITA work with partners to scale out the development & factory production of Aflasafe across Africa. Keeping our food safe

🌿 Plant Health SWOT 🌿 Titilayo Folade, plant pathologist working on mycotoxin management, leads the #IITA plant health group in a #SWOT analysis, looking at 🟢strengths, ⚪weaknesses, 🔵opportunities & 🔴threats Next step - building a stronger network of plant health research

🌿🚜 Plant Health🐞🌿 The sun sets on an energetic team of plant health researchers from @IITA_CGIAR who are meeting this week to plan strategies for tackling crop pest & disease threats, protecting food security & boosting livelihoods in Africa @CGIAR @l_lava @ApollinFotso