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Seven members of the Board of Directors of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) led by the incoming Board Chair, H.E.

A two day workshop on the production of hybrid seeds and to introduce seed producers to high yielding new hybrid maize seed by the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) at the University of Ghana, has started at Koforidua.

Professor Eric Danquah, Founding Director, West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, has called for measures in addressing food insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa.

The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, over the weekend graduated 15 quality plant breeders and seven seed scientists as part efforts to boost food and nutrition security in Africa.

The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) of the University of Ghana, will host the maiden edition of the African Plant Breeders Association (APBA) conference from October 23 - 25. Professor Eric Y.

Dr. Olumide Alabi, a product of WACCI lands a job at HZPC, Holland B.V. in the Netherlands, as a Biometrician and Quantitative Geneticist. Dr.

The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana (UG), in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), United States (US), has launched a five-week entrepreneurship programme.

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The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement on Monday May 6 – 10, 2019 successfully presented the 15 students of its 8^th cohort to the School of Graduate Studies, University of Ghana for their PhD oral examinations.

Since its inception in 2007, breeders at the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) in Ghana have produced 23 new varieties of corn, seven new varieties of peanuts, 11 new varieties of rice and seven new varieties of sweet potato.

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Accra, Mar. 22, GNA – The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) of the University of Ghana, will collaborate with all actors in the maize value chain to stop maize imports into Ghana.

Dr. John S.Y.