Resources Tagged: Crop Improvement
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Insect pests reduce crop yield by attacking crops and by transmitting diseases. Access to training and information on the effective use of pesticides can be rare for many smallholder farmers. As a result, farmers often sell damaged produce or use high levels of pesticides, which can be dangerous...
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Over the years the production of Sweet potatoes (Ipomoea batatas) as a commercial crop in Zimbabwe has been increasing due to its numerous advantages as compared to other root and tuber crops. The crop has minimal input requirements yet yields highly. Sweet potatoes store well and can be a famine...
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Seeds are the primary basis for human sustenance. They are the repository of the genetic potential of crop species and their varieties resulting from the continuous improvement and selection over time. Crop improvement and the delivery of high quality seeds and planting materials of selected...
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Access Agriculture Training Video Farmer managed natural regeneration (FMNR) has helped to "regreen" five million hectares of land in Niger after three decades of destruction. It is an effective way of reintroducing parkland agroforestry to help improve management of crops and livestock....
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This comprehensive book provides the latest authoritative scientific information on improvement of both temperate and tropical crops. Crop Improvement: Challenges in the Twenty-First Century brings together expert plant breeders and geneticists to address issues related to crop adaptability and...
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2019-11-26 Session: This presentation will focus on a review of research and development with endophyte symbiosis and the potential for plant improvement in East Africa. Steve Clark is a Pasture agronomy research scientist with the Victorian Department of Agriculture, Australia from 1982-2018 where he...
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1997-01-01 Identifying, maintaining and using crop types that can grow unter various stress and limiting conditions is essential. It is within this context that tef is the subject of this monograph.
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This book provides a broad, general introduction to the principles of plant breeding, and has been written primarily for senior undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, horticulture and applied biology. Only a familiarity with basic botany, cytogenetics and some statistics is assumed....
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2003-01-01 This book integrates many fields to help students understand the complexity of the basic science that underlies crop and food production.