The new challenges of wheat improvement
In an interview for BBC Newsday, CIMMYT senior scientist Velu Govindan spoke of today’s challenges for wheat breeders.
July 26, 2019
In the Green Revolution era, the focus for wheat breeders was on boosting yields to feed more people, but today the challenge is not only to increase production on smaller plots of land, but also to improve nutritional quality, said CIMMYT wheat breeder Velu Govindan, during an interview on BBC Newsday.
Interview starts at 43:23:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172wpkb45wcm4t
Govindan was speaking from the International Wheat Congress in the city of Saskatoon in Canada’s breadbasket province on the prairies, Saskatchewan.
Capacity development, Nutrition, health and food security
