{"id":13728,"date":"2026-06-20T12:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/delivering-technologies-to-farmers-organizations-for-sustainable-cassava-and-maize-production\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T12:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:30:04","slug":"delivering-technologies-to-farmers-organizations-for-sustainable-cassava-and-maize-production","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/delivering-technologies-to-farmers-organizations-for-sustainable-cassava-and-maize-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Delivering technologies to farmers\u2019 organizations for sustainable cassava and maize production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several cassava and maize genotypes have been developed by the IITA cassava breeding unit in Nigeria focused on improving root yields, starch content, resistance\/tolerance for major pests and diseases, nutritional content (e.g., higher provitamin A content), and other characteristics desired by the cassava-based industry. The deployment of these new varieties into Cameroon required a basic understanding of their performance (root yield and stability, nutritional quality of yellow-root genotypes, and response to pests and diseases) in relation to contrasting environments. Selected varieties would then be disseminated through development projects like the Agricultural Investment and Market Development Project (PIDMA) in Cameroon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PIDMA is a joint World Bank\/Cameroon government operation that aims at transforming the low productivity and subsistence-oriented cassava, maize, and sorghum subsectors into commercially oriented and competitive value chains that are inclusive of smallholder farmers, sustainable, and resilient to climate change, and create rural employment. IITA and PIDMA signed a partnership agreement to ensure that smallholder farmers benefit from gender-equitable interventions. The aim is to provide eligible smallholder cooperatives with technologies for sustainable production such as improved pre-foundation and foundation cassava seedlings and maize (including biofortified varieties) with the following characteristics: high yielding, disease-resistant, and adapted to targeted production zones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/annualreport18.iita.org\/2020\/04\/20\/delivering-technologies-to-farmers-organizations-for-sustainable-cassava-and-maize-production\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lire la suite<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several cassava and maize genotypes have been developed by the IITA cassava breeding unit in Nigeria focused on improving root yields, starch content, resistance\/tolerance for major pests and diseases, nutritional content (e.g., higher provitamin A content), and other characteristics desired by the cassava-based 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