He described Tela maize as a product of modernisation and scientific innovation, designed to address persistent issues such as pest infestations and changing climatic conditions. "Tela maize is ...

Farmers across northern Nigeria are expanding their farmlands to cultivate more of the high-yielding TELA maize variety following a bumper harvest last season. The move signals growing confidence ...

Farmers across northern Nigeria are expanding their farmlands to cultivate more of the high-yielding TELA maize variety following a bumper harvest last season. The move signals growing confidence ...

Dr James Karanja, Principal Investigator of TELA Maize Project shows the production of GMO maize under research at Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Organization (KALRO), Kiboko in Makueni County.

Maize, a little-known crop three decades ago, continues its triumph over wheat, paddy and other crops due to its higher yield and profitability. In the current fiscal year (FY) 2024-25 ending in ...

The BT Maize that Kalro and AATF seek to grow in Kenya is owned by Bayer Company and has been licensed royalty-free to the TELA Maize project to benefit farmers in Kenya, Ethiopia, Nigeria ...

But, with Nigeria’s successful harvest of Tela Maize, her first Genetically Modified (GM) maize, this technological breakthrough may have proved critics wrong. It also represents a quantum leap ...

You have to credit SciDev.Net — where possible include our logo with a link back to the original ... year of transgenic insect-resistant and drought-tolerant maize varieties, also known as TELA maize, ...

The announcement that the Federal Government had launched the transgenic TELA maize varieties in the country raised concerns in some quarters. The TELA maize variety belongs to a category known as ...

As part of efforts to improve the production of Maize in the country Nigeria will begin massive production of four varieties of maize under the Tela maize project. The country, which joined project in ...

Nigeria, the last of the six African countries to join the TELA Maize Project in 2019, has proudly shared its remarkable success story, emerging as the second African country, after South Africa ...