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DEZA
Projektnummer
7F-03093.01
Projekttitel
CIMMYT - Hill Maize Research Project NARC/CIMMYT
Projekttitel Englisch
CIMMYT - Hill Maize Research Project NARC/CIMMYT

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Schlüsselwörter
(Deutsch)
CIMMYT
International Maiz and Wheat Improvement Centre
Forschung
Oekologie
Erwachsenen Bildung
Tropenlanswirtschaft
Ausland
Mexico
NARC
National Maize Research Programme
Schlüsselwörter
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Maize, Nepal, food, agriculture, development cooperation
Kurzbeschreibung
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Maize is the second most important staple food after rice for the Nepalese population. It is grown on 775'000 ha of land with an average yield of 1.7 t/ha. About 70% of the maize is produced in the mid-hills region (900 to 1500 m elevation) where maize surpasses rice as the major staple food, and a further 10% is produced in the high hills (1500-2200 m). Farm sizes in the hills are small and maize becomes of ever greater importance in the diet as farm sizes and incomes decline. Maize is generally grown on the rain-fed bari land, which are usually small, outward sloping terraces but often also steep, un-bunded slopes prone to substantial erosion.
Several maize-oriented projects have focused on production issues in the past. Most were concentrated on the lowland areas of the terai and inner terai, where maize is an important crop in winter and spring on irigated land. Earlier projects have admittedly only left a modest impact on maize-production in the hills. Through the National Potato Development Programme, SEC has a long-standing experience with agricultural research and extension in Nepal. The Hill Maize Project has a similar long-term perspective and will draw on the experiences - positive and negative - of earlier projects. The Hill Maize Project is the second major new project of the 'green sector' in Nepal, defined in the new Country programme (1998-2004). It combines a more classical commodity research approach with a resource management and cropping system focus.
The main partner on the Nepali side is the Nepal Agricultural Research Council (NARC) with its National Maize Research Programe (NRMP). NRMP research center is in Rampur in the teri; from there NRMP coordinates maize research acvtivities throughout NepaL The international Maize and Wheat Inprovement Center, CIMMYT with its headoffice in Mexico, has a worldwide mandate for maize research and maintains a regional office (for wheat) in Kathmandu. The project will allow this center of excellence to marshal a critical mass to support the needs of Nepa. The Hill Maize Project should eventually benefit millions of small land holders in the hills of Nepal by improving their food-security and in certain cases by allowing them even to produce marketable surpluses of maize.

The goal of this project is to increase food security of farm families in hill areas by raising the productivity and sustainability of maize-based cropping systems. This will be done by building sustained research capacity in the National Maize Research Program, NARC Agricultural Research Stations, and in linked institutions and enhancing the linkage between technology generation, verification and its delivery to farmers. In the last year of the project a joint external review is forseen. The achievements of the project will be measured against the defined indicators (see Milestones, Annex 1).

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