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Historical perspectives, current status, achievements, and strategies for quality protein maize breeding in Ethiopia

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Mexico, DF (Mexico) CIMMYT : 2003Description: p. 124-125Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 631.53 BOO
Summary: In Ethiopia, millions of people depend on maize for their daily food. Since normal maize varieties are low in two nutritionally vital amino acids, lysine and tryptophan, consumers who mainly depend on maize do not meet their protein needs to sustain acceptable growth and adequate health (Olson and Frey 1987). Low-income people have limited access to protein sources like meat, eggs, and milk. Quality protein maize (QPM) could be a good source of protein for these people. Therefore, substituting the normal maize grown in Ethiopia with QPM would substantially improve protein needs and greatly reduce the malnutrition problem of subsistence farmers and resource-poor people depending on maize as their staple food. The objective of QPM research is to identify and/ or develop varieties having comparable yield potential to normal maize varieties in production and thereby improve the nutritional status of those depending on maize as a staple food.
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In Ethiopia, millions of people depend on maize for their daily food. Since normal maize varieties are low in two nutritionally vital amino acids, lysine and tryptophan, consumers who mainly depend on maize do not meet their protein needs to sustain acceptable growth and adequate health (Olson and Frey 1987). Low-income people have limited access to protein sources like meat, eggs, and milk. Quality protein maize (QPM) could be a good source of protein for these people. Therefore, substituting the normal maize grown in Ethiopia with QPM would substantially improve protein needs and greatly reduce the malnutrition problem of subsistence farmers and resource-poor people depending on maize as their staple food. The objective of QPM research is to identify and/ or develop varieties having comparable yield potential to normal maize varieties in production and thereby improve the nutritional status of those depending on maize as a staple food.

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