

Potential success with new crop varieties, seed treatment, pest and weed control is being strengthened by giving sorghum and millet growers proven ways and means to better harvests. A multi-stakeholder project consortium, including ICRISAT-WCA, is geared to improving sorghumand pearl millet-based production systems in the Mopti and Sikasso regions of Mali through strengthened research-development partnerships for large-scale use of priority proven technologies.