The variety recorded an average yield of 4.5 tons per hectare during last season’s (2013) traditionally drought stressed short rainy season
Farmers in Kenya and the rest of Africa now have access to 16 new improved drought-tolerant maize varieties that are high-yielding in moderate drought conditions.
Some farmers from Eastern and Western Kenya planted one of the maize hybrids, WE1101, marketed under the brand name Drought TEGO™, during the October 2013 short rains.
