Resources Tagged: Maize

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  1. Maize Production with Manure- Amended Compost

    2021-01-01 Information from ECHO Network member Daryl Edwards from his work in Zimbabwe suggested that using quality compost containing 10% cow manure results in a maize harvest similar to that obtained with 100% cow manure. This could be significant to farmers who have small farm sizes and limited...
    Maize Compost Manure

  2. Combating Maize Lethal Necrosis Disease, Efforts and Progress

    2015-02-03
    Maize Diseases East Africa

  3. Maize: Production and Processing

    2012-01-20 This practical guide, part of the Pro-Agro Collection,describes both the cultivation as well as the agrifood processing of maize. It outlines the steps and processes to produce corn flour, and provides some useful recipes. Available as a French download.
    corn Corn -Production Maize

  4. SAWBO - How to Identify and Scout for Fall Armyworm: Variant for Nepal

    The Fall Armyworm is an insect that can damage your maize plants or even cause you to lose your whole maize crop. The best way to protect your maize crop is to scout early and treat early. In this animation, we will explain how to scout for the fall armyworm, so you can take action to protect...
    Maize Fall Armyworm SAWBO Nepal

  5. Working Together with Farmers to Understand and Build a More Sustainable Sloping Land Corn and Rice Farming System

    2017-10-03 In this workshop, I will describe and diagram the common sloping land corn and rice farming system. I will then identify leverage points within the system and how development workers can work with farmers to make these systems more sustainable.
    corn SALT Maize Rice Asia

  6. Let's Store Our Maize Well - Video

    Access Agriculture Training Video Maize grains have to be very dry and clean before you store them. The grains will stay free of pests and diseases for a long time in a metal granary, if you store them correctly. Available languages Arabic Bambara Bangla English French Kiswahili Spanish
    Post Harvest AccessAgriculture Maize Storage

  7. Quality-protein maize: report of an ad hoc panel of the advisory committee on technology innovation Board on Science and Technology for International Development National Research Council, in cooperation with the Board on Agriculture National Research...

    The purpose of this study is to review quality-protein maize status, to determine whether its previous limitations have indeed been overcome, to consider the potential of this transformation of one of the world's major crops, and to bring an appreciation of quality-protein maize--so far little...
    corn Maize

  8. Bending Over the Maize - Video

    Access Agriculture Training Video A traditional Central American practice is to bend over the maize stalk to help dry the maize and to protect it from disease and pest damage. If you do this at just the right time, you will harvest more. Maize grains keep growing until a black spot appears at the...
    Farm Management Crop Yields AccessAgriculture Maize Latin America and ...

  9. How to Identify and Scout for Fall Armyworm

    The Fall Armyworm is an insect that can damage your maize plants or even cause you to lose your whole maize crop. The best way to protect your maize crop is to scout early and treat early. In this animation, we will explain how to scout for the fall armyworm, so you can take action to protect...
    Maize SAWBO Armyworm IPM Integrated Pest Ma...

  10. Hand-Pollination : Corn

    Hand-pollination is a technique used by seed savers to ensure that plants produce seed that is true-to-type and that flowers are not contaminated by the pollen from another variety. The process varies among species, but with plants that produce unisexual flowers like corn, the uncontaminated...
    corn Maize