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Yam leaf-bud cuttings, rapid quality seed production! Leaf-bud Cuttings present a profitable innovation for agribusinesses in the yam value chain by offering a cost-effective and scalable method to produce seed yam. Instead of using heavy, transport-expensive tubers, businesses can generate dozens of clean planting materials from a single vine, meeting the rising demand for certified seed yam while significantly cutting production and logistics costs. This creates a new market opportunity for seed entrepreneurs to supply farmers, NGOs, and institutional buyers while increasing profitability and sustainability. Investing in this technology can give businesses a competitive edge in the growing yam sector.
Multiplying Seeds, Securing Harvests, Ensuring Food Security! Semi-Autotrophic Hydroponics (SAH) is an innovative, cost-effective technology for rapidly multiplying yam planting materials. By using leaf nodal cuttings in a controlled environment, SAH enables year-round production of high-quality yam seedlings and tubers. This method significantly reduces seed costs, increases productivity, and ensures a reliable seed supply for commercial seed companies, farmers, and breeders. Scaling up this technology will address seed shortages and improve food security.
Reduce pesticide and herbicide losses with IITA's herbicide calculator Widespread abuse of pesticides (including herbicides) is common due to poorly calibrated spray tanks. Farmers overdose or underdose when applying pesticides. The IITA Herbicide Calculator helps farmers and spray service providers to correctly estimate the amount of herbicide to add to backpack sprayers, and promotes herbicide efficacy.