Jonas Nickas

Scientist-Seed Science & Technology || Seed Systems || Plant Genetic Resources Conservation || Plant Breeding || Agronomy || Biostatistics

[Jonas Nickas @JonasNickas]

🌿#VPCTeamSynergy🌿.
Dr @OgeroKo just delivered the strides made in #PROSSIVA's cross-cutting component. The collective effort is driving us closer to the efficient functional VPC seed systems in Africa.@PROSSIVA_IITA @IITA_CGIAR @jamesplegg

[Jonas Nickas @JonasNickas]

@grok @mcfcHQ_ @TheIsackpeter

[IITA @IITA_CGIAR]

📢 A Training Workshop on Diagnosis and Detection of Banana Bunchy Top Virus (BBTV) Infection in Bananas is #HappeningNow at Namalere post entry quarantine laboratory.

#IITAUganda #PlantHealth #Banana

[Jonas Nickas @JonasNickas]

@brain_midbrain @Benji_Fernandes @TheIsackpeter 😂😂

[Jonas Nickas @JonasNickas]

@japhet_kapinga @TheIsackpeter

[Lava Kumar @l_lava]

Syneregistic @CGIAR programs for biosecuring agriculture and biodiversity: The @CgiarFarming and Germplasm Health Units (GHUs) of the #Genebanks integrate advanced technologies and multistakeholder partnerships to enhance plant biosecurity & food systems.
https://t.co/hePA6UeThz

[Lava Kumar @l_lava]

SeedTracker is being adopted in DRC🇨🇩 to enhance seed systems by improving traceability, certification, quality assurance, real-time monitoring, and data-driven decision-making across the seed value chain.
@ClerisseC @Ogunya @jamesplegg @IITA_CGIAR
https://t.co/P8FS5maIJe

[PROSSIVA @PROSSIVA_CGIAR]

The PROSSIVA team was in Illushi, Edo State, advocating for leaf-bud cutting — an improved seed #yam propagation technique.

#Seed traders were receptive, farmers testified to record harvests, and demonstration plots are now in the pipeline. Progress. 🌱
#PROSSIVA #SeedYam

[Jonas Nickas @JonasNickas]

@MoMataula @waziri_mbeya98 @MkulimaKante 😂😂

[PROSSIVA @PROSSIVA_CGIAR]

Yam seed system faces challenges, from limited access to quality planting materials to disease and inefficient #propagation

Watch Prof. Morufat Balogun, #Yam Component Lead, #PROSSIVA, explain how the project is addressing these gaps.
#IITA

Watch here:🎦https://t.co/JcS3SP9B8w

[Jeremy Farrar @JeremyFarrar]

The @Stanford University has made all its AI Curriculum available freely to everyone https://t.co/QzRki2bL0L

[Jonas Nickas @JonasNickas]

@ClerisseC @IITA_CGIAR @simeonehui @BVanlauwe @CGIAR_EMD @jamesplegg @l_lava @CGIAR @NteranyaS @aaliofficiel @fatshi13 @butondonzangi Congratulations @ClerisseC for reaching this milestone.

[Clerisse Casinga @ClerisseC]

📢HAPENNING NOW IN KINSHASA📢

📡SCALING UP #AKILIMO= @ACAI_IITA through CVCD project in DRC🛰

Scaling Digital Innovations nécessite une très bonne formation des formateurs sur la stratégie de diffusion & d'utilisation d'AKILIMO 4 the good of our honorable farmers.
@Taat_Africa

[Clerisse Casinga @ClerisseC]

💥📱SCALING UP DIGITAL INNOVATIONS IN Agriculture: @seedtracker + @ACAI_IITA Through PNDA project💥

🇨🇩Digitalising DRC Seed system with @IITA_CGIAR supports is the entry-point 4 Sustainable Agriculture Transformation & the good of our farmers💥
@butondonzangi
@PrimatureRDC

[Philipp Heimberger @heimbergecon]

This paper shows that authors from low-income countries remain excluded from top-ranked economics journals and receive less attention from other economists. Developing country authors are far less likely to be published in top journals even when holding citation counts constant.

[mhd @mhdhamad]

Harvest day:

Cassavas on the board, my boy tasting the rewards, and my girl feeding our happy chickens. Grateful for these simple blessings.

[Polycarp The Bibliophile @PolycarpMDM]

Naumia kuona mwanangu akipoteza maisha nami sina namna ya kumsaidia. Nikiwa kama mzazi naandika kwa uchungu kutokana na kupata baraka ya mtoto ambayo imeambatana maumivu.

Naitwa Dismas Kweka, mkazi wa Hai, ni mzazi wa mtoto Ebenezer Kweka (miezi 9) mkazi wa Kata ya Narumu–Wilaya ya Hai, mkoani Kilimanjaro.

Mwanangu alizaliwa na tatizo la kichwa kikubwa (hydrocephalus). Tulihangaika na matibabu yake mpaka akiba yetu ya mwisho. Tuliomba msaada kwa ndugu, jamaa na marafiki na mtoto akafanyiwa upasuaji hospitali ya KCMC Moshi kuwekewa mpira (ventricular shunt) wa kuondoa maji kichwani.

Tulimshukuru Mungu kwamba baada ya mahangaiko yote hatimaye mtoto wetu amepona. Licha ya kwamba nilifilisika kabisa hadi kutumia mtaji wangu wa biashara, lakini nilipata faraja kuona mwanangu amepona.

Lakini ni kama shetani alikuwa ananiwinda. Baada tu ya kutibiwa tatizo la kichwa, alianza kupata changamoto ya upumuaji, kutoka jasho kwa wingi, kushindwa kunyonya na kutetemeka kama ana degedege. Tulipomrudisha hospitali aligundulika kuwa na tundu kwenye moyo (VSD). Alipewa rufaa ya haraka kwenda JKCI kwa ajili ya upasuaji.

Baada ya kupata rufaa hiyo nilimshirikisha mke wangu na wote tukajikuta tunalia. Tulijiuliza kwa nini Mungu ameruhusu tukapita kwenye majaribu makubwa hivi? Hata hivyo tuliamini hakuna jaribu lisilo na mlango wa kutokea. Yeye aliyeruhusu jaribu hili litupate anajua namna ya kututoa hapa.

Kwa msaada wa ndugu na marafiki tulifanikiwa kumleta Ebwnezer taasisi ya moyo ya JKCI ambako alifanyiwa vipimo, na sasa anatakiwa kufanyiwa upasuaji ambao gharama yake ni zaidi ya 7M. Hata hivyo baada ya kuomba na kueleza hali yetu walitupunguzia hadi 4M ambayo hata hivyo hatuna uwezo wa kuipata. Nimebaki tu nikiangalia mwanangu nisijue cha kufanya.

Mimi na mke wangu kwa unyenyekevu mkubwa, tunaomba Watanzania watusaidie kuokoa maisha ya kijana wetu Ebenezer, mzaliwa wetu wa kwanza. Hatuna cha kuwalipa zaidi ya kuwaombea baraka kwa Mungu.

#MyTake:
Ukiguswa kuokoa maisha ya mtoto Ebenezer, tuma sadaka yako kupitia: M-PESA: #0752581983 Tigopesa: #0719744954 CRDB: #0150633516500 NMB: #24110012109 Gifted Hearts Foundation #RudishaTabasamu #LetLoveLead

[ISTA - International Seed Testing Association @ISTAseedtesting]

Kicking off the first day of the @FAO Global Exhibition: From Seeds to Foods! 🌾✨

🤝 Together with our partners from Centro Nazionale Carabinieri Biodiversità, Sergio Pasquini and Vincenzo Andriani, and the ISTA Secretariat team, Yoana and Karen proud to represent @ISTAseedtesting.

📍 Section B Innovations in Agrifood Systems, Booth #1.6
Parco di Porta Capena, Piazzale Numa Pompilio, Rome.

#seedquality #seedtesting #Seeds2Foods #FAO80 #FutureofFood 🌱

[Clerisse Casinga @ClerisseC]

💥✊️Making @IITA_CGIAR Great Again with our mission of Transforming African Agriculture is not a Dream or Slogan but a 24h/24h daily basis commitment of researchers 4 Sustainable Food Security & Livelihood.Kudos to our committed researchers in winning several awards worldwide🧬