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WEST AFRICA CENTRE FOR
CROP IMPROVEMENT VISION
WACCI is a leader in the Agricultural ACEs In addition, several graduates produced by
and a hub for plant breeding globally. the centre have developed and released
Established in 2007, WACCI has enrolled over 60 varieties of crops including rice,
149 PhD and 65 MPhil students from 19 maize, sweet potato, cowpea, taro, groundnut
African Countries as well as produced and cassava across four African countries.
95 PhD and 30 MPhil graduates. Since its
inception, the number of female students Notably, Dr. Maxwell Asante, one of the
enrolled comprises of 36% for PhD and centre’s graduates was named Ghana’s best
35% for MPhil. scientist for 2017 after releasing five improved
rice varieties. He was also acclaimed as the
The centre was recently granted a 5-year research scientist of the year, 2017 at the
accreditation from the Agency for Quality CSIR-CRI, Ghana where he leads the rice
Assurance Germany for its flagship PhD improvement programme.
programmes in Plant Breeding and MPhil
in Seed Science and Technology.
For more information, please visit:
WACCI has so far released three high-yield https://wacci.ug.edu.gh/
maize hybrid varieties in the transitional and
savanna zones of Ghana with yields between
9-11 tons/ha.
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