CIMMYT seed varieties are grown in more than 100 countries.
More than 10,000 researchers worldwide are alumni of CIMMYT training programs. They play a critical role in their home countries helping the world's poorest and most marginalized farmers.
Seed, from the CIMMYT Seed Bank, is made available, freely, to researchers worldwide. Over the past 25 years, CIMMYT has distributed more than 91,000 maize and 158,000 wheat varieties to researchers and impoverished farmers around the world.
CIMMYT's Seed Bank is the world's largest collection of wheat (150,000 accessions) and maize (27,000 accessions).