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1991-07-01 This paper describes, through a case study, how the On-Farm Seed Project in Senegal has used farmer participatory research to improve resource-poor farmers' production of rice seed and food grain. Though the example is specific, the principles it illustrates -- for conducting research and for...
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1998-01-01 This report presents the findings of a DFID-funded research project to investigate the state of, and prospects for, organic agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. The objectives of the project were as follows: In a variety of cllimatic zones within sub-Saharan Africa, determine the type and degree of...
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2003-01-01 This binder contains reference materials for green manure/cover crops, practices of agroforestry, salt, dryland farming, nutrition and ECHO help.
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1989-01-01 An IBSRAM Inaugural workshop, India. IBSRAM (International Board for Soil Research an Management) is a new international agency, established to assist and speed the flow of existing and newly developing countries for applications that will increase food production. Thus, the IBSRAM will...
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Great for a relatively brief yet comprehensive description and discussion of the Columbian Exchange. Concise and particularly good for the teacher or student that wants to have a thorough understanding of the development and biological and human impacts of this historical turning point.
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1987-01-01 This volume on sesbania, a member of the legume family, brings together research and combines it with previous studies and an extensive review of the literature. Sesbania occurs both in annual and perennial forms in tropical an subtropical regions and is adaptable in a wide variety of soil...
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2009-01-01 This book examines the theology and ethics of land use, especially the practices of modern industrialized agriculture, in light of critical biblical exegesis. Nine interrelated essays explore the biblical writers' pervasive concern for the care of arable land against the background of the...
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1994-01-01 Teaching of agriculture as a separate topic is a major subject in primary school. The topics in the series have been presented in comparatively great depth and breadth. They include our environment, animals and plants, soil, gardening, and farm animals. Library contains 4 volumes: books 4, 5, 6,...
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2021-01-01 Dry land plays an important role in India's food security. Sixty eight per cent of the cultivated area in Indian agriculture comes under dry land, which contributes about 44 per cent of the total food production. Dry land horticulture not only provides higher income to the farmers, but also...
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2021-01-01 This book on "A Textbook on Rainfed Agriculture and Watershed Management (Theory and Praticals)" is a boon to the students of Agriculture as well as to all the people associated with agriculture. Various aspects of farming under rainfed agriculture have been deliberated and explored thoroughly in...