Seeds for Resilience Project: Researchers distribute quality indigenous leafy vegetable seeds to farmers
Farmers selected under the Seeds for Resilience (SfR) Project have received quality seeds of indigenous leafy vegetables, made up of Amaranth (Aleefu), Corchorus (Ayoyo) and Roselle (Sule), for planting.
The Seeds for Resilience Project is being implemented by the Plant Genetic Resources Research Institute (PGRRI) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), with funding from the Crop Trust.
The project, had between 2022 and 2024, organized two participatory varietal selection events to enable some selected farmers from the Ashanti and northern regions to make selections of these three local vegetables, based on vegetative (leaf yield) and reproductive (flowering and seed yield) characters.
The focus of the user group engagement work plan of the SfR project, culm...