Annual Report 2012 - African Agricultural Technology Foundation
Annual Report 2012 - African Agricultural Technology Foundation
Annual Report 2012 - African Agricultural Technology Foundation
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Table of Contents<br />
Who we are ..............................................................................................................................1<br />
<strong>2012</strong> Highlights ......................................................................................................................5<br />
Message from the Board Chair....................................................................................... 11<br />
Message from the Executive Director.......................................................................... 15<br />
Imazapyr herbicide registered in Tanzania as country gears for<br />
commercialisation of maize varieties to fight the Striga weed .......................... 20<br />
Successful Bt cowpea trials pave way for multi-locational testing in<br />
Nigeria as Ghana receives approval for first confined field trial ........................ 25<br />
Banana cultivar lines with resistance to bacterial wilt disease<br />
developed in Uganda........................................................................................................ 30<br />
WEMA prepares to deploy conventional hybrids and receives permits<br />
for Bt maize trials in Kenya and Uganda ..................................................................... 35<br />
Ghana and Uganda prepare to conduct rice trials as project generates<br />
transgenic lines for testing.............................................................................................. 40<br />
Aflatoxin Control Project receives approval for on-farm testing in<br />
Kenya as demand for bio-control technology rises in Nigeria .......................... 45<br />
Cassava Mechanisation and Agro-processing Project kicks-off in<br />
Zambia and Nigeria............................................................................................................ 50<br />
Demand for OFAB grows as a sixth chapter is launched in Burkina Faso....... 54<br />
Financial report ................................................................................................................... 59<br />
Board of Trustees <strong>2012</strong> ..................................................................................................... 62<br />
AATF staff <strong>2012</strong> .................................................................................................................... 64<br />
Deploying agricultural technologies for farmers
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