Resources Tagged: Root Crops
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CGIAR’s first results-oriented Strategy and Results Framework (SRF) was developed in 2010, providing for first time an overarching structure for the combined work of CGIAR Centers delivery through 16 CGIAR Research Programs (CRP),steering the CGIAR system to overall delivery of impact. The 2010 –...
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Key Resource 1987-01-01 This book is an attempt to present in a concise form basic data relating to the production and utilization of most of the root crops of economic importance to countries in the tropics. For quick reference the data are arranged under standard headings and include yield, products and their uses,...
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Key Resource 1985-04-01 Root crops is a general term commonly used for a wide variety of food plants that have an underground storage organ known as a root, tuber (rhizome), corm, or bulb. Root crops are rich in starch, and low in protein and oil. They are excellent sources of calories. Some are consumed as major...
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1997-11-19 If I intercrop sweet potato with taller plants, how much will that reduce the productivity of the sweet potato?
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1997-11-19 Taro for feeding livestock.
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2017-02-09 Root crops are not often used in conservation agriculture. This session describes their use and best practices. Presenter : Stephen Lutz is Program Consultant for World Renew in Kenya for the past 12 years, and advises three local established church partners throughout Kenya, managing...
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2000-03-20 Potatoes do produce seeds, so to help distinguish these from "seed potatoes" the seeds are called "true potato seeds" (TPS). It takes only 160 grams of TPS to seed one hectare (2.3 ounces/acre) and half that amount if seeds are used for transplants. That compares with over 2,000 pounds/acre of...
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2002-01-20 Several years ago (in EDN Issue 43, December 1993), we wrote that seed was available for a carrot that will set seed in the tropics (normally carrots only produce seed in temperate climates with a cold winter). Dr. Warwick Kerr sent us the original ‘Uberlandia’ carrot seed from Brazil nearly ten...
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1988-01-01 This book covers cereals, legumes, vegetables, root vegetables, fruit and plantation crops, animal foods.
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Emphasis is on the development and understanding of the relationship between the plant and its subterranean environment and the effect of modification of that environment on plant response.