Overview
This project aims to increase farmer income, systems productivity and food security by delivering high-yielding, disease and pest resistant mungbean varieties to smallholder farmers.
Declining crop yields, increased agricultural risks, diminishing soil fertility and environmental degradation are some of the main challenges which continue to threaten societal goals of improving food, income and nutrition security especially in smallholder farming.
There is large demand for options for sustainable intensification of tropical cropping systems of Africa, South Asia and Australia.
The project will build on current ACIAR projects researching mungbean agronomy and contribution to cropping system intensification in Myanmar and Bangladesh.
