The Genetically Modified (GM) Potato project ongoing in Nigeria has concluded its first-year multi-locational confined trial in three locations with the Biotech potatoes showing significant yield advantage over conventional varieties planted in the country.
Preliminary results from the three locations namely Kuru and Bokkos in Plateau State and Kusuku in Taraba State show that the biotech potatoes had a uniform yield advantage of over 300 percent when compared to the best performing variety in the country when no fungicide was applied.The trials is under the Feed the Future Global Biotech Potato Partnership (GBPP), a five-year project, coordinated by Michigan State University, that focuses on the commercialization of late blight disease resistant potatoes in farmer-preferred varieties in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, and Nigeria.
Preliminary results from the three locations namely Kuru and Bokkos in Plateau State and Kusuku in Taraba State show that the biotech potatoes had a uniform yield advantage of over 300 percent when compared to the best performing variety in the country when no fungicide was applied.The trials is under the Feed the Future Global Biotech Potato Partnership (GBPP), a five-year project, coordinated by Michigan State University, that focuses on the commercialization of late blight disease resistant potatoes in farmer-preferred varieties in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kenya, and Nigeria.
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