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Resources Tagged: Cover Crops

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  1. Perennial Peanut Living Mulch for Low Input Sorghum and Millet Production

    2018-11-20 Grain sorghum(Sorghum bicolor)and pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum)are both globally important warm-season,annual cereal grain crops.Small-scale farmers who grow these grains can belimited by access to fertilizers and human labor. Agricultural low input systems use few commercial inputs,...
    Pearl Millet Sorghum Perennial Peanut Mulching Cover Crops GMCC

  2. Cover Crops in West Africa : Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture

    2000-01-01 This publication focuses on the potential of cover crops to maintain and improve soil fertility in SSA. Often in isolation, African researchers have experimented with cover cropping, but the results have not been readily accessible to colleagues and farmers. This book documents past experience...
    Cover Crops West Africa

  3. FM 1987 ILEIA Newsletter Vol 3 #1

    1987-05-19 Integrated nutrient supply Improved fallow Nitrogen transfer from legumes Cover crops on acid soils Sunnhemp Rock phosphate Micro-nutrient drain Soil conservation and shifting cultivators Cycles of poverty
    Cover Crops Poverty Soil Conservation Fallow Sunn Hemp Legumes Phosphorus Micronutrients Soil Acidity Nitrogen

  4. FM 1992 ILEIA Newsletter Vol 8 #4

    1992-12-19 Erosion saves work Industrious insects Playing with family labour Fossil energy Green manures Cover crops Ecological agriculture
    Soil Erosion Useful Insects Green Manures Cover Crops

  5. FM 2008 LESIA Magazine Vol 24 #2

    2008-06-20 Optimising nutrient cycles with trees in pasture fields Talking soil science with farmers Soil quality fand farm profitability Cover crops do it all Green manures Micro-organisms Feeding and watering the soil to increase food production Soil rehabilitation starts with more efficient cookstoves...
    Green Manures Cover Crops Night Soil Soil science Tanzania

  6. FAO - Cross-Slope Barriers

    Cross-slope barriers are measures on sloping lands in the form of earth or soil bunds, stone lines, and / or vegetative strips for reducing runoff velocity and soil loss, thereby contributing to soil, water and nutrient conservation. This is achieved by reducing steepness and / or length of...
    Fanya juu Terracing FAO Sustainable Land M... Vegetation Stone Bunds Earth Bunds Soil Fertility Green Manure Cover... Green Manures Cover Crops

  7. Crop Rotation and Cover Cropping: Soil Resiliency and Health on the Organic Farm

    2011-01-01 Part of the NOFA guides. This volume covers: Historical roots of cover-crop techniques Thinking beyond this season's cash crop (disease and pest reduction, weed suppression, cash vs. cover crops) What is a good rotation? (mapping the farm, grouping crops, sample groupings) The economics of...
    Cover Crops United States Crop Rotation Organic Farming Soil Health

  8. Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 1: Systems and Science

    2020-01-01 This volume summarises research on key components for successful Conservation Agriculture (CA). Chapters review the latest research on ways of optimising no-till techniques to minimise soil disturbance in relation to seeding, weeding and other operations. Chapters also review ways to improve soil...
    Conservation Agric... Crop Science No-Till Techniques Cover Crops Crop Rotation Intercropping Mulching Soil Health

  9. Cover Crops: Keeping Nutrients Out of Waterways

    2017-01-01 Includes cover crop facts on how to keep nutrients out of waterways.
    Cover Crops Crops and Nitrogen Phosphorus Water Quality Mana...

  10. LACN Issue #1

    2017-03-30 Making Silage in Vichada Tech Note Spotlight: Biosand Water Filter Echoes from our Network: Member Highlight Adria and Job From ECHO's Technical Respose Team: Appropriate forage crops for clay soils From ECHO's Seed Bank: Forage peanut
    Cover Crops Silage Biosand Filter Biosand Water Filters Forage Appropriate Forage... Forages Tropical Forages Latin America and ...