CGIAR Research Program on Grain Legumes and Dryland Cereals - GLDC

Overview: FP4-3 - Product testing and release

FP4-2 - FP4-4


Leader Godfree Chigeza, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture - IITA
Coleader: Gilles Trouche, The French Agricultural Research Center for International Development - CIRAD

Team members: 37
Partner organizations: 10

Budget 2025
USD : 0

Activities/Products:  26


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Innovations

High oleic groundnut varieties commercialized in India meet the enhanced shelf-life needs of food industry and consumer health benefits.

Reporting year: 2020

High oleic groundnut varieties commercialized in India meet the enhanced shelf-life needs of food industry and consumer health benefits.

Reporting year: 2019

Policy favours biofortified pearl millet in India to combat Fe and Zn deficiencies

Reporting year: 2018

Four Finger Millet Varieties Released for the First Time in Kenya and Uganda

Publication year: 2019

Crop Network Groups (CNGs) as platform to further crop Product design, development, testing, advancement and delivery.

Publication year: 2019

Dual purpose Pearl millet hybrid variety VPMH-7 (ICMA 94555) released for cultivation in India with projected spillover adoption in South Asia

Reporting year: 2021

Finger millet variety UFM 6 (KNE 628) released for cultivation in Kenya

Reporting year: 2021

Finger millet variety EUFM-8 (LLAMA) released for cultivation in Kenya

Reporting year: 2021

Finger millet variety AGRY-2 - Chepesi (SEC 195 Snapping) released for cultivation in Kenya with projected spillover in eastern and southern Africa

Reporting year: 2021

new pearl millet hybrid TAAW in Senegal

Reporting year: 2021

Drought and disease tolerant groundnut variety with good haulm quality released in India.

Reporting year: 2021

Ashenafi (ICEAP 00554) - A medium duration and wilt tolerant pigeonpea variety released for cultivation in Ethiopia

Reporting year: 2021

New variety in Pigeonpea for India

Reporting year: 2021

Release of Sorghum hybrid CSH 42

Reporting year: 2021

Release of Pearl millet hybrid NAFAGNON

Reporting year: 2021

Micronutrient rich pearl millet varieties for sahelien agroecology

Reporting year: 2021

Chickpea inbred variety ICCV 96329 for cultivation in medium to high altitudes India and Malawi

Reporting year: 2020

Chickpea inbred variety ICCV 97105 for cultivation in mid-altitudes in Malawi, Kenya, and Tanzania

Reporting year: 2020

Kabuli chickpea inbred variety RLBGK 1 for cultivation in dry lowlands in India

Reporting year: 2020

Kabuli chickpea inbred variety NBeG 810 for cultivation in low altitude areas in India

Reporting year: 2020

Kabuli chickpea inbred variety JGK 6 for cultivation in dry lowlands in India

Reporting year: 2020

Chickpea inbred variety RVG 204 for cultivation in the dry lowlands of India

Reporting year: 2020

Chickpea inbred variety ICCV 97114 for cultivation in low to mid-altitudes in Malawi

Reporting year: 2020

Groundnut inbred variety CG17 for cultivation in low to mid-altitudes in Malawi and Zambia

Reporting year: 2020

Groundnut inbred variety CG16 for cultivation in low to mid-altitudes in Malawi and Mozambique

Reporting year: 2020

Groundnut inbred variety CG15 for cultivation in low to mid-altitudes in Malawi and Mozambique

Reporting year: 2020

High yielding groundnut cultivar ICGV 08307 (EUGN-2) for Kenya

Reporting year: 2019

Large seeded groundnut variety: CG7 (EUGN-1) for Kenya

Reporting year: 2019

Early maturing, groundnut rosette disease resistant groundnut cultivar: ICGV-SM 01514 (MGV9) for Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi

Reporting year: 2019
  Activities/Products
    
Code Activity/Product Name Leader Co-leader Total Outputs Output types View
FP4-3.1 Develoment and testing of improved parents with high grain Fe and Zn and testing their combining ability; Multilocation testing of high Fe and Zn lines and their release Habyarimana Ephrem Ashok Kumar Are 1
FP4-3.2 Development and testing of improved parents with white bold lustrous grains and testing their combining ability; Multilocation testing of improved varieties/lines Habyarimana Ephrem Ashok Kumar Are 1
FP4-3.3 Development and testing of improved sweet sorghum and high biomass hybrids and testing their performance in Multilocation trials and in farmers fields Habyarimana Ephrem Ashok Kumar Are 1
FP4-3.4 On-farm and market evaluation of advanced productive groundnut varieties in Nigeria and Mali Haile Desmae 1
FP4-3.5 Evaluation of desi and kabuli elite breeding lines at >20 locations in South Asia Srinivasan Samineni Pooran Gaur 1
FP4-3.6 Early generation testing sites establised in India and Myanmar Pasupuleti Janila TV Murali 1
FP4-3.7 Evaluation of photo-period and temperature insensitive super-early pigeonpea lines Prakash I Gangashetty Sharma Mamta 1
FP4-3.8 Development and evaluation(on-station, on-farm and NPT) of medium and Long duration varieties with intercropping compatibility that are suited to cropping systems in Malawi and Tanzania NVPR Ganga Rao Patrick Okori 1
FP4-3.9 Extra short duration varieties for rice fallow evaluted Shiv Kumar Agrawal Ashutosh Sarker 1
FP4-3.10 Deploy elite high yielding soybean varieties resistant to rust and frogeye adapted to Nigeria, Zambia and similar environments Godfree Chigeza Christabell Nachilima 1
FP4-3.11 Multi-locational evaluation of high biomas medium duration lines for animal feed NVPR Ganga Rao Patrick Okori 1
FP4-3.12 On-farm and market evaluation of advanced productive groundnut varieties in Malawi Patrick Okori 1
FP4-3.13 Expand the scale of on-farm and market evaluations of advanced productive groundnut varieties in Myanmar Pasupuleti Janila 1
FP4-3.14 Develop extra-early and lines with resistance to Striga and tolerance to drought and low soil fertility Ousmane Boukar Sivakumar Chamarthi 1
FP4-3.15 Develop medium-maturity with resistance to Striga and tolerance to drought and low soil fertility Ousmane Boukar Sivakumar Chamarthi 1
FP4-3.16 "Stage 3: Late Development: Advanced yield trials, Multi-environment trials for candidate soybean lines selected in Stage 2 for wider evaluation/ characterization in Nigeria " Godfree Chigeza 0
FP4-3.17 Stage 4-5: Pre-lease, registration and variety release of elite high yielding soybean varieties as per product concept note in Nigeria Godfree Chigeza 0
FP4-3.18 "Stage 3: Late Development: Advanced yield trials, Multi-environment trials for candidate soybean lines selected in Stage 2 for wider evaluation/ characterization in Zambia " Godfree Chigeza 0
FP4-3.19 Stage 4-5: Pre-lease, release and variety deployment of elite high yielding soybean varieties as per product concept note in Zambia Godfree Chigeza 0
FP4-3.20 Evaluation of Large seeded Kabuli lines for high yield, disesae resistance and drought tolerance NVPR Ganga Rao 0
FP4-3.21 Evaluation of desi and kabuli elite breeding lines for high yield, drought, tolerance to Fusaium and Aschochyta with agro-ecological suitability in Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya, Mozambique and some selected WCA countries NVPR Ganga Rao 0
FP4-3.22 Early generation testing sites establised in India and assessing the combining ability of new parents developed Habyarimana Ephrem Ashok Kumar Are 1
FP4-3.23 Evaluation of desi and kabuli elite breeding lines in All India Coordinated Research Project 19 Srinivasan Samineni Pooran Gaur 1
FP4-3.24 Nutrient profiling of pearl millet cultivars in WCA 19 Prakash I Gangashetty 1
FP4-3.25 To develop and execute multilocation testing strategy for sorghum, pearl millet and groundnut NVPR Ganga Rao Hapson Mushoriwa 1
FP4-3.26 To develop and execute multilocation testing strategy at target product environment Ashok Kumar Are 0
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