International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

But drought r- resistant crops are not new to Nigeria.

IITA and CIMMYT's Drought Tolerant Maize for Africa program bred non-GMO drought-tolerant hybrids since 2006, fifteen years before telemies even existed.

By 2013, more than half of Nigeria's maize plots were already growing these conventionally bred varieties.

Telemies doesn't solve a problem that conventional methods already haven't solved.