North Africa to develop drought-resistant barley - SciDev.Net

North Africa to develop drought-resistant barley - SciDev.Net: "North Africa to develop drought-resistant barley

Hichem Boum

11 March 2008 | EN

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Agricultural researchers in Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia have teamed up to create drought-resistant and salt-tolerant varieties of barley better suited to the North African region.

The project, funded by the Canadian International Development Research Centre and overseen by the New Partnership for Africa's Development North Africa Biosciences Network, will see thirty scientists from five organisations spending the next two years developing the barley varieties."