Resources Tagged: Potatoes

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  1. Apios americana

    2021-04-06 Apios americana is a climbing, perennial vine and a member of the legume (Fabaceae) family. Common names for this crop include apios, ground nut, wild bean, bog potato, wild potato, Virginia potato, Indian potato, and wild bean. The plant, native to eastern parts of North America, was widely...
    Roots and Tubers Potatoes Groundnuts

  2. Recovering Native Potatoes

    An Access Agriculture Training Video Conserve the varieties you do have, by planting them and eating them at home. To recover seed of native crops, establish associations with farmers who are interested in conserving them. An NGO can help you get organised. Making an inventory and an illustrated...
    Conservation Agric... Native plant garde... Native Plants Potatoes Roots and Tubers AccessAgriculture

  3. Potentially Important Food Plants of Angola

    2015-09-20 This book is designed as a simple introduction to the more common food plants of Angola. It is hoped people will take greater pride and interest in these plants and become confident and informed about how to grow and use them. Many of the local food plants that occur in every country are very...
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  4. Using Sawdust to Store Potatoes - Video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Farmers use sawdust to store potatoes because they do not have electricity. They can get sawdust cheaply and use it to preserve their potatoes until they can sell them at a good price Available languages Ateso Bambara Chichewa / Nyanja English French Kikuyu...
    Food Storage Post Harvest Potatoes AccessAgriculture

  5. FM 1989 ILEIA Newsletter Vol 5 #4

    1989-04-19 Women use local knowledge to ensure survival Amazonian myth gives peasants' views Farmers welcome iguanas in forests of Panama Local initiatives in maintaining biological diversity Andean potato Indigenous knowledge Sustainable rice-farming Village based seed production Genetic diversity
    Amazon River Region Potatoes Biological Diversity Genetic Diversity Indigenous Knowledge Iguanas

  6. Inexpensive Mass Propagation Techniques for Introducing Improved Potato Varieties in the Tropics

    This article is from ECHO Asia Note # 32. Dr. Tapani Haapala Potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) contain high-quality food properties and are very good protein and energy sources on a daily per hectare basis of production (Frusciante et al. 2000). Potatoes are grown mostly in cool climate areas. In the...
    Potatoes Plant Propagation Asia

  7. Select the Best: Positive Selection to Improve Farm Saved Seed Potatoes - Picture Book

    2009-01-20 This manual provides a training approach for teaching farmers how to increase potato yields by improving the quality of farm-saved seed potatoes. After background information on seed potato degeneration, common potato diseases, selection issues and training methodology, it is divided into eight...
    CTA Potatoes Seed Potatoes Seed Saving

  8. FM 2016 Farming Matters Vol 32 Special Issue

    2016-01-20 Access and benefit sharing of genetic resources for family farmers - theory and practice Improving access to vegetable seeds for resilient family farms in Costa Rica Access and benefit sharing in participatory plant breeding in Southwest China Evolutionary populations - living gene banks in...
    Genetic Resources Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Potatoes Plant Breeding Genetics Community Seed Banks

  9. Select the Best: Positive Selection to Improve Farm Saved Seed Potatoes - Trainers Manual

    2009-01-20 This training manual is designed to provide step-by step instructions to trainers in teaching potato farmers positive selection, that is, to ‘select the best’. Positive selection can be used to improve the quality of the seed potatoes saved from the farmers own crop. The manual contains two major...
    East Africa Downloads Potatoes Seed Potatoes Seed Saving CIP CTA

  10. Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics Vol 122, No 2

    2021-01-20 The Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics publishes papers dealing with original research and review papers in the fields of plant production, animal nutrition and animal husbandry, soil science, rural economy and farm management, forestry and forest economy,...
    Africa Rice Production Rice Smallholder Farm Potatoes Cooperatives Scarification Soil Fertility Maize Napier