Product Description

  • Yield potential of up to 14 tonnes per hectare at about 55,000 plants per hectare in a good season
  • Reaches physiological maturity in about 150 – 155 days at 1,100 to 1,300 metres above sea level
  • Commercially available in Zambia

Product Characteristics

  • 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