MissionAssist Books - Agriculture and Farming

How to Make Natural Pesticides - 22/06/2020

This booklet tells you how to use red chilli peppers to help keep pests away from your crops.

Taken from "Footsteps 54" - the literacy publication of Tear Fund, used with kind permission.
Illustrations on pages 4, 5 and cover courtesy of ClipArtEtc.
This edition published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by MissionAssist.

Starting A Tree Nursery - 22/06/2020

How to create a tree nursery from the preparation of the ground to planting trees and caring for them.

Adapted from "Footsteps 5" - the literacy publication of TEAR Fund, used with kind permission.
This edition published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by MissionAssist.

Natural Pesticides: Wood and Rice Husk Ash - 01/06/2020

This booklet explains how to keep pests from your crops by using ash from wood or rice husks.

This uses material taken from Footsteps 54 - the literacy publication of TEAR Fund - with kind permission. This edition was published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by MissionAssist.

Sterilising Seed Beds - 01/06/2020

This explains how to use the heat of the sun to sterilise seed beds as a cheap and simple method of sterilising soil. Sterile soil is best when planting a seed bed because there is less chance of disease.

This was originally published in the United Kingdom in 2004. This edition was published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by MissionAssist.

Early Maize Seedlings - 01/06/2020

How to give maize seedlings an early start and save time between crops.

This uses material taken from Footsteps - the literacy publication of TEAR Fund - with kind permission. This edition was published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by MissionAssist.

Collecting and Keeping Seeds - 01/06/2020

Harvesting seeds enables farmers to avoid purchasing them from others each year. Collecting and saving seeds from tomatoes and members of the cabbage family, both of which favour temperate and colder climates, are explained.

This booklet has been adapted from a Shell Book, "Ideias para guardar sementes" produced in Portuguese by SIL Mozambique, 2006. It also uses material from Footsteps, the literary publication of TEAR Fund, with kind permission. It was originally adapted from the book, "Seed to Seed" by Suzanne Ashworth.

This edition was published in the United Kingdom in 1994 by MissionAssist.

Rice Paddy, Book 1 - 01/06/2020

This is the first in a series of four books on planting and maintaining a rice paddy. It looks at seedbeds, flowering and fruiting, preparing seeds, planting the seedbed, preparing the rice paddy, planting the rice, weeding and harvesting.

Adapted from "Ini Sa Ukit Ta Egbael Basakan" ©1993, SIL Philippines. Illustrations are from the collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, ©1993, IRRI. Used with permission. This edition was published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by MissionAssist.

Rice Paddy, Book 2 - 01/06/2020

This is the second in a series of four books on planting and maintaining a rice paddy. It looks at problems with poor soil and covers zinc deficiency, using zinc sulphate and nitrogen fertiliser. It advises on varieties of rice to give the best harvest, how to put fertiliser in the soil and how to get the most benefit from fertiliser.

Adapted from "Ini Sa Ukit Ta Egbael Basakan" ©1993, SIL Philippines. Illustrations are from the collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, ©1993, IRRI. Used with permission. This edition was published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by MissionAssist.

Rice Paddy, Book 3 - 01/06/2020

This is the third in a series of four books on planting and maintaining a rice paddy. It looks at problems with pests and includes insects that eat the rice before it is ripe, insects that eat it after the flower head has appeared, rats and birds.

Adapted from "Ini Sa Ukit Ta Egbael Basakan" ©1993, SIL Philippines. Illustrations are from the collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, ©1993, IRRI. Used with permission. This edition was published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by MissionAssist.

Rice Paddy, Book 4 - 01/06/2020

This is the fourth in a series of four books on planting and maintaining a rice paddy. It looks at problems with diseases and covers blast, sheath blight, brown spot, narrow brown leaf spot, false smut, sheath rot, bacterial blight, bacterial leaf streak and viruses.

Adapted from "Ini Sa Ukit Ta Egbael Basakan" ©1993, SIL Philippines. Illustrations are from the collection of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines, ©1993, IRRI. Used with permission. This edition was published in the United Kingdom in 2020 by MissionAssist.