TY  - BP
AU  - Mugo,S.N.
AU  - De Groote,H.
TI  - Chapter 4. Insect resistant maize for Africa Project
T2  - Annual Report
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Nairobi (Kenya)
PB  - CIMMYT
KW  - Bacillus thuringiensis
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Development projects
KW  - Economic situation
KW  - Germplasm
KW  - Maize
KW  - Seed pathology
KW  - Technology transfer
KW  - Plant breeding
KW  - Kenya
N2  - The Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA) Project is a joint venture between the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) with funding from the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture. It responds to the need to feed Africa's rapidly increasing population by reducing the damage incurred by the region's major insect pest of maize, stem borer. IRMA is being implemented initially in Kenya, but the results and experiences gained through the project will be made available to other African countries. The overarching goals of the project are to develop insect resistant maize varieties for the major Kenyan maize growing environments and to establish procedures to provide insect resistant maize to resource poor farmers in Kenya. Throughout the implementation of the IRMA project, relevant technologies will be transferred to KARI and continuously evaluated
T2  - CIMMYT-Kenya annual report
ER  -