US project tries to raise corn yield and farm income in Africa

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), aided by a giant U.S. seed company, “are testing a new approach to improve the production of corn among the millions of poor, small-scale farmers who dominate African agriculture,” says the Des Moines (Iowa) Register. The demonstration project in Ethiopia gives farmers bags of DuPont Pioneer hybrid seed – a… » Read More

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