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Seeing is believing in WorldVeg bitter gourd fields

The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) cucurbit team proudly displayed 400 bitter gourd breeding lines plus another 400 bitter gourd F1 hybrids and early stage products of recurrent selection during Bitter Gourd Open Field Days from 14-30 August 2017 at the World Vegetable Center East and Southeast Asia Research and Training Station, located on the campus of Kasetsart University in Kamphaeng Saen, Thailand.

2017-09-11T00:22:31+00:00September 6, 2017|Categories: Articles, East and Southeast Asia, SEP2017|Tags: , , |

New office established in Benin

Cotonou, Benin -- The World Vegetable Center (WorldVeg) signed an agreement today with the Benin Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation (MFAC) to establish a regional office in the country to serve the horticulture sector in coastal West Africa. The signing took place at MFAC headquarters in Cotonou, where MFAC Secretary General, Ambassador Marc Hermanne Araba signed the agreement with WorldVeg Director General Marco Wopereis. The new office—World Vegetable Center West and Central Africa – Coastal and Humid Regions—is the Center’s fifth regional base worldwide and its third in Africa. It is located on the campus of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in Abomey-Calavi, Benin.

2017-09-13T01:15:06+00:00August 28, 2017|Categories: Articles, Briefing, In Brief, SEP2017, West and Central Africa - Coastal and Humid Regions|

Interns in South Asia

Two interns are working the Crop Protection Lab of WorldVeg South Asia in Hyderabad, India under the supervision of Legume Breeder Ram Nair and Plant Pathologist Abhay Pandey: Alyssa Swehla, from Iowa State University, USA, is conducting an experiment on the effect of Trichoderma harzianum (bioagent) isolates on dry root rot pathogen of mungbean (Vigna radiata). Chloé Elmerich, an intern from ENSAT in France. is screening urdbean (Vigna mungo) lines for resistance to the pathogen causing dry root rot.

2017-07-26T06:18:56+00:00July 26, 2017|Categories: JULY2017, Welcome|

New Demonstration Garden in Benin

Judith Honfoga, Research Assistant - Agronomist at WorldVeg West and Central Africa - Coastal and Humid Regions (our new office in Cotonou, Benin) has taken the initial steps to establish a demonstration garden. Judith prepared raised beds in the 0.2-hectare field and has established a nursery.

2017-07-26T03:25:15+00:00July 26, 2017|Categories: JULY2017, PHOTO OP|Tags: |
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