Resources Tagged: Rain Fed Agriculture

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  1. Agrometeorological Crop Monitoring and Forecasting

    01.01.1983 FAO plant production and protection paper about methods where water availability is the main constraint for crop production. 64 pages, tables, graphs
    Crops and climate Rain-fed Agriculture Rainwater Crop Monitoring

  2. Lablab (Lablab purpureus) New Staple Crop for the Sudano Sahel

    Key Resource
    20.01.2013 About 98% of agricultural production in the Sudano Sahelian region of West and Central Africa is based on rainfed crops. With a mean annual rainfall of 300 to 800 mm/year, the number of staple crops is very limited. It includes two grain crops: pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) for sandy soils...
    Lablab Pulses Intercropping Food Security FMNR Forage Crop Nitrogen Fixation Rain-fed Agriculture

  3. SWISSAID - SWTA 1 - Kitini cha kilimo hai Uzalishaji wa mazao ya msimu

    20.11.2019 Karanga ni mojawapo ya mazao yanayotoa mafuta. Katika Tanzania zao hili hustawi zaidi katika mikoa ya Kusini Mashariki, Dodoma na Morogoro. Pamoja na kutoa mafuta vile vile zao hutumika kwa njia nyingine mbali mbali, nazo ni pamoja na: Chakula cha wanyama / mifugo (Mashudu na majani), kurutubisha...
    Rain-fed Agriculture

  4. Risk Aversion and Diversification

    20.04.2014 Harry van den Burg wrote in response to theEDN 121 articleabout: …the extent to which risk aversion may have been and even is overestimated, at the expense of hunger and exhaustion, as a leading limiting factor on agricultural productivity. “Whereas I certainly think that the argument has merit…I...
    Risk Aversion Smallholder Agricultural System Subsistence Farming Diversification Rain-fed Agriculture