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  1. Fish Farming: Basics of Raising Tilapia & Implementing Aquaculture Projects

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    01-07-2010 Fish farming can generate high interest and excitement. It has great potential to produce high quality protein in relatively short time periods and in small areas. Fish farming is one way that resource poor farmers throughout the world can provide protein that is often lacking in the family diet...
    Aquaculture Fish Farming Tilapia
     

  2. Farm Management Handbook - Crop Production

    Farm management data and information related to the performance of a cropping or livestock production system in the form of input-output ratios, costs, returns and profitability are needed by a wide variety of users. This group includes policy planners, advisors and extension agents, researchers,...
    ZAS Crop Production Handbook Resources Downloads
     

  3. Black Soldier Fly Larvae Production

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    09-06-2023 This guide expands on a summary by Chalermliamthong and Trail (2021) of the black soldier fly larvae production system at the ECHO Asia Small Farm Resource Center in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The production system there serves as an approach for scaling up larvae production as an alternative protein...
    Black Soldier Fly Animal Feed Animal Feeding
     

  4. Making On-Farm Pig Feed: Farm-Generated Formulas vs. Commercial Feeds

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    This article is from ECHO Asia Note # 42 The integration of livestock on the smallholder farm is often a key component to the long-term sustainability of the farm, specifically by means of critical nutrient cycling. Livestock play a unique and critical role on the farm, transforming plant and...
    Pig Feed on-farm feed Banana Stem banana silage fermented feed Hogs farm generated feed Pigs Asia
     

  5. Chickens: Improving Small-Scale Production

    Key Resource 01-01-1995 Domesticated food producing animals in the world outnumber the human population, two to one. There are thousands of animal species in the world, yet, only a few have been successfully domesticated on a permanent basis and none within the last 2000 years. In fact, five species (cattle, sheep,...
    Chickens Poultry Farms
     

  6. A Beginners Guide to Small-Scale Tropical Agriculture

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    So you want to help people in the tropics. Beautiful! The tropics are waiting for you. No matter what your abilities, you can make life better for others in the tropics. Your concern for the physical and spiritual well-being of people can be translated into fruitful service. Your first asset is...
    Smallholder Farm Integrated Pest Ma... Integrated System Tropical Agriculture
     

  7. Agriculture in Times of Climate Change

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    16-04-2013 Smallholder farmers and agricultural development workers are reporting changes in climate. For example, during the 2012 ECHO Agricultural Workshop in Asia, 63 attendees representing at least 25 agriculture and community development organizations from across Myanmar were polled about their...
    Climate Change
     

  8. Creating a Low-Cost Seed Dryer for Use in Local Seed Banks

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    This article is from ECHO Asia Note # 31. Saving your own seeds can be a cost-effective way to access crop seed for future planting and to help maintain the planet’s plant biodiversity. Whether you plant your own saved seeds, give them away to friends and neighbors, or distribute them through...
    Seed Bank Seed Drying Seeds Asia
     

  9. Biochar: An Organic House for Soil Microbes

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    01-06-2013 Rick Burnette wrote an article for Issue 7(July 2010) of ECHO Asia Notes, titled “Charcoal Production in 200-Liter Horizontal Drum Kilns.” My article takes the charring process a step further by exploring the rapidly re-emerging world of biochar. Biochar is a form of charcoal, produced through...
    Soil Microorganisms Biochar
     

  10. Fish Farming Promotion

    20-02-2013
    Fish Farming East Africa