Product Profiles
Some of the Product profiles that have been released include;
Beans
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Malawi: Superior dry grain sugar bean variety
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Ethiopia:
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Small white canning bean
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High yielding, bold seed size green gram
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Uganda: Fresh bean pod​
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Tanzania: Yellow dry bean
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Zimbabwe: High yielding, high Fe and Zn and disease tolerant red mottled bean variety
Superior dry grain sugar bean variety
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
Rowland Chirwa
Alliance of Bioversity International
and CIAT (ABC), Malawi
Small white canning bean
Common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)
Berhanu Amsalu
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)
Mung bean/green gram (Vigna radiata)
High yielding, bold seed size green gram (Ethiopia)
Berhanu Amsalu
Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR)
Fresh bean Pod
Higher yielding, attractive bean pod with a longer shelf-life for the emerging fresh pod bean market.
Dr. Stanley Nkalubo
NARO, Uganda
Yellow dry bean
Earlier maturing, attractive dry yellow beans for the growing market in Tanzania and Eastern Africa region.
Teshale Mamo
Alliance of Bioversity-CIAT, Tanzania
Red mottled bean variety
High yielding, high Fe and Zn and disease tolerant red mottled bean variety (Zimbabwe)
Tsekenedza Shylet
Department of Research and Specialist Services, Zimbabwe
Nuts and Peas
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Benin: High-yielding, cream-seeded Kersting’s groundnut​
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Ghana: Drought Tolerant Groundnut for Sudan and Guinea Savannah zones of Ghana
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Eastern Africa:
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High yielding, drought tolerant and short duration dry grain pigeonpea
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High yielding, drought tolerant and medium duration dry grain pigeonpea
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Drought Tolerant Groundnut
Drought tolerant groundnut variety with high economic yield (Ghana)
Achana Niagiah
The West African Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI)
High Yielding Kersting's Groundnut
High-yielding, cream-seeded Kersting’s groundnut
Eric Agoyi
University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
Fast Cooking Kersting's Groundnut
Fast cooking, cream-seeded Kersting’s groundnut
Eric Agoyi
University of Abomey-Calavi, Benin
Drought Tolerant Bambara Groundnut
High Yielding Drought Tolerant Bambara Groundnut Variety With Low Anti Nutritional Factors
Ogechi Ihuoma
Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Nigeria
High Antioxidant
Capacity Kersting Groundnut
High Yielding and Early Maturing Kersting’s Groundnut With High Antioxidant
Capacity
Abiodun Isiaka
Federal University Oye Ekiti, Ekiti
State, Nigeria
Micronutrient dense Cowpea
Higher concentration of micronutrients (iron, zinc, copper, manganese and boron. High yielding, drought resistance, big grains
Oluwatimilehin Adegbaju
West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI)
Short-duration Dry grain Pigeon Pea
​High yielding, drought tolerant and short duration dry grain pigeonpea for Eastern Africa
Prof. Paul Kimani
University of Nairobi Kenya
Medium-duration dry grain Pigeon pea
High yielding, drought tolerant and medium duration dry grain pigeon pea for Eastern Africa
Prof. Paul Kimani
University of Nairobi Kenya
Resistant variety for coffee wilt disease (CWD)
Coffee wilt disease (CWD) resistant coffee varieties with high yielding and very good cup quality
Admikew Getaneh
Ethiopian Institute of Agriculture Research (EIAR)
Extended shelf-life Tomato inbred
Ghana
Michael K Osei
CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Kumasi (CSIR-CRI)
High-yielding hot-set Tomato hybrid
Benin
Mathieu A.T. Ayenan
University of Ghana, WACCI
Resistant Tomato Cultivar to Bacterial Wilt
Kenya
Francis Mwaura Mirara
International Centre for Advanced
Mediterranean Agronomic Studies-
CIHEAM Bari
Oxylus Cabbage Variety Tolerant to Drought Stress and Diamond Back Moth
Ghana
Emmanuel Ackah
​West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI)
Flood Tolerant and Yellow Vein Mosaic Virus Resistant Okra Hybrids
Flood tolerant and YVMV resistant
okra hybrid with longer shelf life
Ugwu Emmanuel
University of Ghana, WACCI
Drought-tolerant okra for fresh market
Ghana
Jacinta Adoma Opoku
CSIR-Crops Research Institute, Ghana
Dwarf High-Yielding Palm Oil
Ghana
Dickson Osei Darkwah
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Oil
Palm Research Institute (OPRI)
​High yielding, submergent tolerant rice varieties
Alex Yeboah
​CSIR-Savanna Agricultural Research Institute (SARI), Ghana
Early maturing, lowland, long slender grain rice
Andrew A. Efisue
University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria
Pro-vitamin A enriched orange maize
Development and dissemination of Pro-vitamin A orange maize
varieties in Ghana
Manfred Bondzie Ewool
CSIR-Crop Research Institute, Ghana
High Yielding maize variety resistant to FAW
High Yielding maize variety resistant to Fall Army Worm (FAW) for Ghana
Ernest Amanor-Labi
University of Science and Technology (KNUST) and WACCI
High yield cassava
High root yielding cassava varieties with high dry matter and
carotene contents for Nigeria
Bunmi Olasanmi
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
High yielding disease resistant cassava
High yielding disease resistant cassava for processing white granulated Gari for Nigeria
Olaoye, Omotola Dorcas
University of Port Harcourt
Low Tannin Sorghum for Tanzania
High yielding, Striga resistant and Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. strigae
(FOS) compatible, and low tannin sorghum for Tanzania
Emmanuel Justine Mrema
Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute, Tumbi Centre
Post flowering Sorghum drought tolerance
Post-flowering drought tolerance for sorghum (Senegal)
Joseph Pascal SENE
Institut Sénégalais de la recherche
Agronomique (ISRA)
Striga Tolerant Higher yielding Sorghum Variety
Higher Yielding Sorghum Variety Tolerant to the Parasitic Weed Striga Hermonthica for the Kenyan Consumers
Jackline JERUIYOT
Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS)
Product Profile
Practitioner's tool-kit
This is a guide to support practitioners in plant breeding and crop improvement to create a product profile (PP) summary. A product profile summary is comprised of two pages and is prepared in three steps:
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Product profile design team – information about the composition of the team of experts that have contributed to the design of the new variety.
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Clients and markets – information about who the variety has been created to serve and the target markets.
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Technical specification of the variety – an explanation about the design of the new variety and its targeted technical attributes
In these changing times, farmers and plant breeders are facing the challenge to improve the productivity and quality of the food we eat and redress the balance between supply and demand in developing countries.
Climate change, rising population, and the need for farming systems to be sustainable for future generations require both innovation and change. Improving new varieties can contribute to this challenge, but the design of new varieties is of paramount importance and can mean the difference between success or failure of new releases
A template has been developed with the primary purpose of communication of product profiles (PP). Completion of the PP template will enable the PP leader/ champion and/or members of the design team to communicate the target product profile of a new variety to a range of technical and non-technical audiences.
The contents of the template should enable audiences to visualize who the variety has been designed for, how it will be grown and its technical characteristics
