Improving the quality of pearl millet residues for livestock

The primary outputs of this project are new and /or modified hybrid pearl millet parent lines that produce stover with a higher nutritive value for ruminants. The potential benefits of these new parent lines will be made available to farmers by the public and private hybrid industry.

Improving postrainy sorghum varieties to meet the growing grain and fodder demand in peninsular India

Improving the competitiveness of pig producers in an adjusting Vietnam market

Given widespread rural poverty in Vietnam, successful commercial smallholder pig farming alongside the large-scale pig industry may serve as a vehicle for poverty alleviation if pragmatic options can be identified about the technology, institutional arrangements and policy support needed to improve the access of poorer producers to quality inputs and services.