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  1. Disease-Resistant Tepary Beans Now Available

    1995-03-19 Tepary beans are a very drought resistant bean.
    Underutilized Crops Tepary Beans Legume Beans

  2. Alley Cropping to Sustain Yields

    1995-06-19 Alley cropping is an agroforestry technique which has been widely promoted in agriculture development programs throughout the tropics. Many studies report increased harvests in alley crops versus control plots without trees. A recent report from the International Centre for Research in...
    Alley Cropping Agroforestry Legume

  3. Home-Grown Beans Produce Less Gas

    1996-04-19 Home grown beans produce less gas.
    Legume Beans Flatulence Nutrition

  4. Use of Legume Cover Crops in Orchards or Plantations

    1994-10-19 The use of cover crops in orchards and plantations. Since the early 1900s legumes have been used as cover crops in oil palm plantations in Asia. More recently it is being evaluated for other trees: soursop (Annona muricata) in Costa Rica, citrus in Honduras and Surinam, bananas in Panama, etc....
    Cover Crops Legume Tropical Kudzu Desmodium Velvet Bean

  5. What About Rhizobia Inoculants?

    1994-07-19 Information on obtaining inoculants for legume crops.
    Inoculants Inoculation Legume Rhyzobia

  6. Ideas For Controlling Chickpea Pod Borer

    1995-10-19 Chickpea leaves and pods exude extremely acidic (pH 2) droplets which repel most pests from attacking the plant. But recently the pod borer, which eats the contents of the pods, has become tolerant to the acid and has devastated crops in Asia.
    Crop Pests Legume Pest Control

  7. Success With Velvet Bean in the Republic of Benin

    1993-12-19 Velvet bean,Mucuna pruriens, hasprobably had more impact on farmers lives than any plant distributed from our seedbank.
    Legume Cover Crops Green Manures Velvet Bean

  8. Performance of Jack Bean Seed that ECHO Sent Us.

    1999-03-19 This is a good example of how quickly seeds can multiply. “Of the 8 seeds that were sent 4 were planted in a placewhere sunlight was restricted to about 4 hours a day. These gave very few pods. The 4 others got more sunlight and we got a harvest of 185 seeds so far. We have planted 160 of these...
    Jackbean Legume Cover Crops Green Manures Seeds

  9. Tolerance of Moringa oleifera to Freeze Events

    2012-01-01 Through funding from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, ECHO has completed an initial year of research in South Africa (Limpopo Province). Our goal is to conduct research applicable to farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa. Part of our research has been to study a moringa/legume intercropping system, in...
    Moringa Limpopo Legume Intercropping Freeze Events Mulching

  10. Sesbania sesban, var. ‘Mount Cotton’ Available

    2001-01-20 ECHO now has seed of Sesbania sesban var nubica, cultivar "Mount Cotton".
    Agroforestry Legume Sesbania