ICARDA Research Mandate: Mandate in Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA)

Bread and Durum wheat improvement

AFGHANIS.jpg	Farmers threshing wheat harvest in Afghanistan
BRO-10.jpg	Mandate in Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA). Bread wheat improvement
BRO-11.jpg	Mandate in Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA). Durum wheat improvement
BRO-27.jpg	Cham 5, a high-yielding durum wheat cultivar with resistance to different abiotic and biotic stresses, was released in 1993/94 for the dry areas in Syria.
BRO-28.jpg	“Cham 6”, a high-yielding bread wheat variety, with moderate resistance to yellow rust, was released in Algeria, Jordan, Lebanon, Sudan, and Syria.
Carv13-9a .jpg	Wheat in Central Asia. Dr Anna Filatenko (left) of the Vavilov Institute in Syria in 1990.
carv16-13a.jpg	Farmers, extension specialists and researchers visit adjacent, contrasting wheat fields that highlight the difference between improved and traditional production technologies, during a field day at Sarab in northwestern Iran, June 2002.
carv16-13b.jpg	Participants in a training workshop examine the performance of winter wheat ëDostlikí in Uzbekistan.
carv16-41.jpg	The wheat cultivar on the left was able to inhibit weed growth, while the other cultivars could not.
carv16-9a.jpg	Wheat: Future Harvest Consortium members discuss plans for production of quality seed in Afghanistan.
carv16-9b.jpg	A healthy wheat crop near Kabul.
Carv17-13a.jpg	Combine harvester in wheat field
Carv17-9.jpg	Response of wheat in Potahar plateau, Pakistan, to application of superphos-phate ( <300 mm/yr). >
Carv18&19-13a.jpg	Foundation wheat seed production at ICARDA’s main research station for distribution to Afghanistan farmers.
Carv18&19-34b.jpg	Wheat Self-sufficiency is improving in Sudan, thanks to the development and adoption of improved varieties and production technologies.
Carv6-11.jpg	Debiera, a commercial bread-wheat variety for Sudan, photographed at ARC Sudan’s research station at Wad Medani. Varieties of this sort are making production viable south of Khartoum.
CAR_0004.jpg	Central Asia - Uzbek scientists, development officers, and farmers visit a wheat demonstration site in the Kashkadariya region.
ICARDC5.jpg	Woman winnowing threshed wheat.
ICARDC6.jpg	Women harvesting wheat. They feed us. ICARDA works with and for them.