Recursos Etiquetado: Agrodok

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  1. Agrodok 017, Cultivation of Tomato

    1/1/1989 Production, Processing and Marketing Tomato is one of the most widely cultivated crops in the world. It is an important source of vitamins and an important cash crop for smallholders and medium-scale commercial farmers. This Agrodok focuses on good practices for growing a healthy tomato crop and...
    Tomatoes Marketing Tomato Production Small Scale Agrodok

  2. Agrodok 016, Agroforestry

    1/1/1994 Farmers in large parts of the tropics have no tradition of aiming at maximum production per hectare; their main concern was to reduce the risk of crop failure. The principal reason is that - except in the main population centres - there were no convenient markets for food surpluses. The...
    Agroforestry Agroforestry Systems Agrodok

  3. Agrodok 015, Small-scale Freshwater Fish Farming

    1/1/1996 As fish farming practices are very diverse, we have chosen to limit ourselves to small-scale freshwater fish farming in the tropics. And, as pond fish farming is the most common form of fish cultivation in these areas, the information provided focuses on pond construction and pond management. The...
    Fish Ponds Freshwater Fishes Pond Management Agrodok Fish Farming Small-Scale Fisheries

  4. Agrodok 014, Dairy Cattle Husbandry

    1/1/1996 More Milk Through Better Management This Agrodok provides information about the main aspects of dairy farming in the tropics such as feeding, breeding, health care, reproduction and recording. It is meant for smallholders with some education and some knowledge about dairy cattle. The second...
    Dairy Cattle Dairy cattle health Animal Husbandry Agrodok Cattle Production

  5. Agrodok 012, Preservation of Fish and Meat

    19/1/1994 This Agrodok is intended as a practical manual that reviews the simple techniques used to preserve fish and meat. The booklet gives guidelines for several preservation techniques. The methods described and the results achieved can, of course, differ locally. The general introduction deals with...
    Food Preservation Meat Processing Fish Preservation Meat Preservation Agrodok

  6. Agrodok 010, Cultivation of Soya and other Legumes

    1/1/2002 This Agrodok is based on a previous shorter edition, Soya. The text has been extended to include more practical information on growing and processing soya and other legumes into nutritious food products. We have included other legumes so that the information in the book will be useful in more...
    Soya bean Soy Beans Legumes as Food Legumes Agrodok

  7. Agrodok 009, The Home Garden in the Tropics

    1/1/2008 This Agrodok replaces ‘The vegetable garden in the tropics’, which treated the garden as a series of plots for the production of vegetable crops. In this edition, features such as hedges and trees and shrubs that give a garden its permanent character, come to the fore. Moreover, the emphasis is...
    Tropical Home Garden Tropical Garden Agrodok

  8. Agrodok 008, Preparation and Use of Compost

    1/1/1980 This booklet has been compiled to give information about how compost can be applied in the tropics and subtropics. It gives a simple description of the processes taking place in the soil and during composting. Practical suggestions are given for constructing a compost heap. A few selected compost...
    Compost Agrodok Compost Use

  9. Agrodok 007, Goat Keeping in the Tropics

    1/1/1991 Goats play an important role in food production systems in developing countries. Their great popularity can be explained by their good adaptation to many different climates (ecological adaptation) and the many uses for which they can be kept. Goats are especially important in developing...
    Goats Tropical Animal Hu... Goat Industry Agrodok

  10. Agrodok 006, Simple Construction Surveying for Rural Applications

    1/1/1990 The majority of farmers in the world still practise some form of subsistence farming. Their draught-animal and handwork-based farming practices, however, cannot be compared with the completely mechanised and highly automated precision-farming practices that are becoming the norm for many of their...
    Surveying Rural areas Design & Construction Agrodok