Tainan, Taiwan
April 10, 2009
Source:
AVRDC - The World Vegetable
Center - Newsletter
Drs. Mohamed Tazi and
SalahEddin AbuGharsa, leaders of a seed system development
project in Libya, visited AVRDC’s Samanko station in Mali from
31 March - 3 April 2009 to explore areas of collaboration. It
was agreed that teams from Mali and Libya will jointly evaluate,
in Libya, promising AVRDC lines selected at Samanko. AVRDC will
help the project enhance its capacity in vegetable breeding by
offering short duration training courses and on-the-job training
at Samanko for young Libyan scientists.
On 6 April 2009, a team from Tunis-based
Baddar Agricole, a
seed company, led by its Managing Director, Mr. Raouf
Ghariani, held discussions with the AVRDC team in Mali and
visited field experiments at Samanko. The
former Chairman of the African Seed Trade Association (AFSTA),
Ghariani was impressed by the AVRDC tomato and pepper lines
under evaluation and expressed a strong desire to collaborate
with the Center. After seeing roselle for the first time and
hearing about its potential, he indicated Baddar Agricole would
consider adding the
species to its crop portfolio.
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From
right: Momodou Kayentao, Manager, Baddar Mali; Raouf
Ghariani, Managing Director, Baddar Seeds; Neji
Tarchoun, Director General, Regional Centre for
Horticulture and Organic Agriculture, Tunisia; and AVRDC
breeders Meïssa Diouf and Albert Rouamba at the Samanko
experimental site.
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