Resources Tagged: Seeds

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  1. Appropriate Seed Saving Technologies

    2018-02-07 Speaker Bio: Dr. Abram J Bicksler is the Director of the ECHO Asia Impact Center in Chiang Mai, Thailand. For over 35 years, ECHO has been helping thousands of development workers and organizations around the world to gain better access to vital information and resources needed to improve food...
    Seeds Seed Saving Asia

  2. Biology of Seed Saving

    2018-01-17
    Seeds Seed Saving Asia

  3. Seedtime: On the History, Husbandry, Politics and Promise of Seeds

    2014-01-01 Scott Chaskey—working farmer, poet, and spiritual father of the community farming movement—considers "the web of biodiversity and resilience at the heart of our cultural inheritance" by masterfully weaving history, politics, botany, literature, mythology, and memoir into a beautiful and...
    Seeds

  4. Seed production of agricultural crops

    This book is essentially a practical work, giving the basic requirements for the production of seed for agricultural crops. It contains enough fundamental information, however, to enable the reader to understand the reasoning behind the management practices discussed. In the opening chapter, the...
    Seeds Seed technology Field Crops-Seeds

  5. Principles of seed science and technology

    This book is written for the undergraduate student or lay person who desires an introduction to the principles of seed science and technology. The first eight chapters present the seed as a biological system in terms of its origin, development, and composition, as well as its function,...
    Seed industry and ... Life sciences Plant physiology Seed technology Seeds

  6. Role of Smallholder Farmers in Seed Production Systems: Report and recommendations of a study visit to Zimbabwe

    1999-01-01 This book reports on a study visit that exposed seed experts and smallholder seed producers from east and southern Africa to an advanced seed production system, such as that in Zimbabwe, which would equip them with the experience and knowledge necessary to formulate strategies likely to have a...
    Africa Seeds Seed technology

  7. Seeds the yearbook of agriculture

    This Yearbook of Agriculture seeks to provide a new and improved basis for understanding the complex order of Nature's forces so that man can better shape them in a positive and creative fashion. Compiled in this book is our vast knowledge of seeds for greater application in the United States.
    Seed Crops Seeds

  8. Growing Plants From Seed

    1996-01-01 Growing Plants from Seed contains essential information on this most popular form of plant propagation. The book explains exactly what a seed is and how it germinates, and explores the main techniques of harvesting and storing seed. There are step-by-step instructions on sowing and growing-on...
    Germination Sowing Seeds

  9. Introduction to Seed Banking

    2018-08-05
    Seed Bank Seeds Asia

  10. Creating a Low-Cost Seed Dryer for Use in Local Seed Banks

    Key Resource
    This article is from ECHO Asia Note # 31. Saving your own seeds can be a cost-effective way to access crop seed for future planting and to help maintain the planet’s plant biodiversity. Whether you plant your own saved seeds, give them away to friends and neighbors, or distribute them through...
    Seeds Seed Bank Seed Drying Asia