Declining crop yields increased agricultural risks, diminishing soil fertility and environmental degradation continue to threaten societal goals of improving food, income and nutrition security especially in smallholder farming.
Sustainable intensification is a viable climate smart agriculture practice that significantly enhances system productivity and consequently resilience in rural smallholder farming systems.
There is a large demand for options for sustainable intensification of tropical cropping systems of Africa, Asia and Australia.
The International Mungbean Improvement Network will increase farmer income, systems productivity and food security by delivering high-yielding, disease and pest resistant mungbean varieties to smallholder farmers.
By the end of the project, the following are expected:
Date: 5-7 March 2024 Venue: Maruay Garden Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand BACKGROUND Mungbean, also known as green gram is a grain legume crop cultivated over 7 million hectares, predominantly across Asia and rapidly spreading to other parts of the world. Owing to its short duration nature (55-60 days maturity) it is an ideal rotation crop in […]