On Assignment: Kenya
- By Michael Major ;
- 26 Photos
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Eight-day photo assignment in Nairobi and western Kenya documenting a finger miller pre-breeding project and the ICRAF genebank. June 2018.
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Abraham Choti, a lab technician at the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service, examines a cassava sprout which has been stored in a growth chamber with elevated temperatures which help remove viruses from the shoot apical meristem. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
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IITA’s Morag Ferguson and her team are eliminating viruses from cassava germplasm so that it can safely be transported from Kenya to IITA’s main genebank in Nigeria. Morag’s team is working with KEPHIS, Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service, to develop protocols that will lead to ensuring cassava germplasm is free of diseases and can be stored in genebanks so that we can safeguard cassava diversity forever. In photo, Theresa Nyokabi of KEPHIS holds a rack of tubes in the growth room. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
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IITA’s Morag Ferguson and her team are eliminating viruses from cassava germplasm so that it can safely be transported from Kenya to IITA’s main genebank in Nigeria. Morag’s team is working with KEPHIS, Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service, to develop protocols that will lead to ensuring cassava germplasm is free of diseases and can be stored in genebanks so that we can safeguard cassava diversity forever. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
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IITA’s Morag Ferguson and her team are eliminating viruses from cassava germplasm so that it can safely be transported from Kenya to IITA’s main genebank in Nigeria. Morag’s team is working with KEPHIS, Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service, to develop protocols that will lead to ensuring cassava germplasm is free of diseases and can be stored in genebanks so that we can safeguard cassava diversity forever. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
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Farmer Mary Kwena Two of Kakamega County shows off a handful of her recently harvested finger millet. She first started growing finger millet after learning from Mary One, her co-wife, who participated on a pilot project led by Dr. Chrispus Oduori. Both Marys have continued to grow the crop long after the project ended. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
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The Crop Trust’s Dr. Benjamin Kilian travelled to Kakamega County in Western Kenya with the Crop Wild Relatives' finger millet pre-breeding partner, Dr. Chrispus Oduori, the Centre Director of the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organisation - KALRO in Kisii. They spoke to farmers who shared their experience in growing finger millet including Margaret Kubende who planted finger millet more than 20 years ago when all of her neighbour farmers planted maize. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
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The Crop Trust’s Dr. Benjamin Kilian (right) with the Crop Wild Relatives projects’s finger millet pre-breeding partner, Dr. Chrispus Oduori and Margaret Kubende, a farmer, in her finger millet field in Kakamega County in Western Kenya. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
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Finger millet can withstand cultivation at altitudes over 2000 m above sea level, has high drought tolerance, and high levels of micronutrients. Pictured are panicles of Maridadi, one of the finger millet varieties released by Dr. Chrispus Oduori. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
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Finger millet pre-breeding partner, Professor Mathews Dida, at Maseno University in western Kenya. Prof. Dida is screening crop wild relatives of finger millet for resistance to blast. Photo: Michael Major/Crop Trust
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