Altitude and Environmental Responses of Entries in the 1974-75 Eastern African Maize Variety Trial

Abstract

The 1974-75 Eastern African Maize Variety Trial (EAMVT) was conducted at 48 sites in East Africa, Somalia, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Burundi, Malawi, Zambia, Zaire, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia. Twenty-four entries were, contributed from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, and the East African Community. These represented commercial varieties and hybrids, experimental hybrids, and breeding populations from national and regional maize programmes.