Master Crop Improvement Techniques for Higher Yields & Climate Resilience

Know about our Plant Breeding and seed production Training Programme.

Our Plant Breeding Training Program equips agricultural professionals, seed technicians, and farmers with scientific crop improvement methods. Learn conventional and modern breeding techniques to develop high-yielding, disease-resistant varieties of staple and cash crops.

Key training modules:

1. Fundamentals of Plant Breeding

Principles of genetics & inheritance
Breeding objectives for different crops
Germplasm collection & conservation

2. Conventional Breeding Methods

Mass selection & pure line selection
Hybridization techniques (selfing/crossing)
Pedigree, bulk, and backcross methods

3. Modern Breeding Technologies

Marker-Assisted Selection (MAS)
Doubled Haploid technology
Speed breeding techniques

4. Crop-Specific Breeding

Cereals (Maize, Rice, Wheat)
Legumes (Soybean, Beans, Cowpea)
Vegetables (Tomato, Pepper, Onion)
Roots & Tubers (Cassava, Yam, Potato)

5. Breeding for Stress Tolerance

Drought & flood resilience
Pest/disease resistance breeding
Soil salinity adaptation

6. Seed Production & Quality Control

Seed multiplication techniques
Certification standards & DUS testing
Seed processing & storage

7. Commercialization & IP Rights

Variety release procedures
Plant breeders’ rights & patents
Business models for seed enterprises