Zambia
Description
- High yielding conventional hybrid in Africa with some farmers hitting 14t/ha in the high potential/irrigated areas
- White, hard dent grain textured hybrid
- Three yield components: high shelling out percentage of up to 85, high row number (18-20 under good environments) and long cobs (up to 33cm with over 900 kernels) white maize hybrid
- Excellent heat and drought escape mechanisms. An elastic and widely adapted hybrid for both dryland and irrigated farming
- Good resistance to Maize Streak Virus, Grey Leaf Spot, Phaesopheria Leaf Spot, Northern Corn Leaf Spot and Common Rust
- Medium dry down rate of 1.8% per week
- Plant height 2.7 and cob placement at 1.5m
- Excellent option for green mealies
- An excellent product for silage because it has excellent stand ability, bulkish, leafy
- Has good chaff:grain ratio – a measure of silage quality
- Good stand ability with plant populations of over 53,000 plants per hectare)
