Resources Tagged: Maize

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  1. Managing aflatoxins in maize during drying and storage - video

    Access Agriculture Training Video As our health and the health of our animals are at stake, let us learn from experienced farmers in Tanzania how to properly dry and store our maize. Available languages: Arabic Bambara Chichewa / Nyanja Dholuo Dioula English French Hausa Kikuyu Kinyarwanda /...
    Aflatoxin AccessAgriculture Maize Post Harvest

  2. Reviving soils with mucuna - video

    Access Agriculture Training Video In the coastal savanna of West Africa, farmers explain how a mucuna cover crop helped to revive their highly degraded soil, and suppress the noxious weeds Striga and Imperata. They show how to grow it to benefit your maize and cassava, and why discussing land...
    GMCC Mucuna Maize Legumes Sustainable Land M... Soil Fertility AccessAgriculture West Africa

  3. 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...
    SAWBO Fall Armyworm Maize Nepal

  4. 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...
    SAWBO Maize Armyworm IPM Integrated Pest Ma...

  5. SAWBO - Climate-smart Push-pull System for Stem Borer Management in Maize

    Growing maize is hard work and pests make it even harder. Insect pests can attack your maize crop and destroy it, affecting your family's nutrition, or costing you money. This animation will take you through the steps of protecting your field from pests like the stem borers by using a push-pull...
    SAWBO Pest Management Stem Borer Maize

  6. Maize

    01-01-1989 Maize (Zea mays; corn) is the third most important food crop in the world, surpassed onlyby two other grains, wheat and rice. Maize is a widely adapted crop, capable of production during the appropriateseason in almost all parts of the world where farming is done. Maize is represented by...
    Maize Quality Protein Maize Seed Selection Agriculture Improv...

  7. Why organic resources and current fertilizer formulations in Southern Africa cannot sustain maize productivity: Evidence from a long-term experiment in Zimbabwe

    Abstract, PLoS One, 2017 Sustainability of maize-based cropping systems is a major challenge for southern Africa, yet the demand for maize as staple food and animal feed in the region continues to increase. A study was conducted on a sandy clay loam (220 g clay kg-1soil) at Domboshawa in Zimbabwe...
    Maize Soil Fertility

  8. Maize and Banana Projects, from Research to Roll-Out

    Maize Banana East Africa

  9. Aflatoxin management for smallholder farmers of maize and groundnuts: Practices and technologies for detection and prevention

    Aflatoxins are the source of both poor health and poor livelihood outcomes. In order to support smallholder farmers in developing countries, it is important to equip them with the knowledge, practices, and access to technology that will allow for proper and effective aflatoxin management. 6...
    Aflatoxin Maize Groundnuts

  10. Effect of Insecticidal Plant Materials on the Quality of Stored Maize Grains

    01-01-2004 This article reports on the effects of ground powders of two tropical plants, Lantana camara L. and Tephrosia vogelii Hook. It looked atthe level of insect damage and the grain quality parameters of stored maize were evaluated for five months. Various page numbers, illustrated
    Stored seed pests Maize Pest Control