Nigeria: Enhanced Sorghum Nears Production

19 October 2011

Crop breeders in Nigeria are close to introducing what may be the country's first crop of enhanced sorghum with better supply of minerals like zinc, iron and pro-vitamin A.

African Biofortified Sorghum--or ABS as it is known--is the product of years of laboratory work, and has now reached field trial stage in Nigeria's northwest.

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