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  1. Underutilized Crops for Small Farm Abundance

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    2018-02-09 Traditional diets included a wide variety of ingredients from myriad wild and domesticated plants. Regional cuisines were shaped by native species in their local environment and by gradually-adopted plants from distant places. The modern global food system and market pressures have reversed this...
    Underutilized Crops Squash and Gourds ... Leafy Vegetables Perennial Vegetables Grain Legumes (Pul... Pulses Grain Crops Grains
     

  2. Insect Pest Management: Options for Monitoring Pest Populations

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    2021-04-06 Part 2 of 4 in a series about Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Insect pests affect all forms of agricultural production, from densely planted field crops to high-value nursery plants to grains in storage. A pest management plan should start with foundational knowledge about local pest species and...
    Insect pests Pest Control EDN ECHO Development N... Integrated Pest Ma... Crop Monitoring Pest Management
     

  3. Selecting the Best Plants for the Tropical Subsistence Farm

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    2007-01-01 By Dr. F. W. Martin. Published in parts, 1989 and 1994; Revised 1998 and 2007 by ECHO Staff Though nearly all plants are useful in some way, they are not equally valuable. For example, wheat, rice and corn may be considered the most valuable plants in the world based on the vast acreage planted...
    Crop Selection Tropical legumes Tropical Fruit Tropical Food Crops Tropical Forages Tropical Trees Perennial Vegetables
     

  4. Food from Dryland Gardens

    Key Resource 1991-02-01 Food from Dryland Gardens encourages gardens that serve local needs, that are based on local knowledge, and that conserve natural resources and the biological diversity of traditional crops. It was written for field workers, extension agents, students, project workers, and program planners. Both...
    Dryland Farming Vegetable Gardening
     

  5. Edible Leaves of the Tropics ; 3rd ed.

    Key Resource 1998-10-01 Third Edition [library also has 2 copies of the 1975edition] People interested in tropical gardening or botany will find this an indispensable guide to several hundred species of plants with edible leaves. Leaves can provide high-quality food, and in the tropics, many are from perennials...
    Leaves Edible Plants Edible Leaves Tropical Agriculture Tropical plants Edible greens
     

  6. Fruits of Warm Climates

    Key Resource 1987-11-01 This 505 page book is an exceptionally exhaustive source of information on tropical and subtropical fruits. It is a well-illustrated and very readable, practical guide for those interested in growing tropical and subtropical fruits either for the home garden or commercially. The fruits are...
    Tropical Fruit
     

  7. Antinutrients

    Antinutrients in foods are responsible for deleterious effects related to the absorption of nutrients and micronutrients. However, some antinutrients may exert beneficial health effects at low concentrations. The mechanisms by which adverse and beneficial effects of food antinutrients operate are...
    Antinutrients
     

  8. Malting and Popping as Tools to Combat Malnutrition

    Many researchers reported that maltingreduces the antinutrient content and increasethe vitamins ( B and C), minerals (calcium, manganese, copper and zinc) and protein contentin the cereal grains viz wheat, barley,sorghum, pearl millet, oats, rice etc. --- Asian Journal of Dairy and Food Research...
    Germination Sprouting
     

  9. Vegetable Soybean

    Vegetable Soybean cultivation probably originated in northeastern China, a region where wild soybeans exist. These high protein beans are best known as pulses and oilseeds.
    Vegetable Legumes
     

  10. Common Bean

    Phaseolus vulgaris is a vining (indeterminate) or bush-type (pseudo-determinate) herbaceous annual. Vining types are perennial and reach 2-5 m in length. Bush-types are annuals and reach heights of 20-60 cm. Pubescent leaves are trifoliate, present alternately on the stem, and range from green to...
    Vegetable Legumes Grain Legumes (Pul...