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  1. Gac

    Gac is a fruit (Momordica cochinchinensis) which is found throughout the Southeast Asian region. It is commonly known as gac from the Vietnamese term gac (i.e. a spherical object). Gac plant grows as dioecious vines, in other words, male and female flowers are borne on separate plants, and...
    Gac Fruit Momordica cochinch...
     

  2. Gac: A colorful and health-promoting fruit

    2017-04-12 Perennial leafy greens, such as moringa and chaya, have been featured quite extensively in EDN. Here we focus on the bright orange-to-red fruitof a tropical vining plant called gac (Momordica cochinchinensis). Belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family, other names for gac are cochin gourd, spiny...
    Gac Perennial
     

  3. EDN Issue #135

    2017-04-12 Biofortified crops: What are they, how do they work and why should we grow them? The cheers and challenges of Conservation Agriculture programs Echoes from our Network:Woman and Agriculture feedback from Joel Matthews From ECHO's Seed Bank: Gac - A colorful and health-promoting fruit eBook...
    Conservation Agric... Gac Women in Agriculture Biofortification
     

  4. Underutilized Crops for Small Farm Abundance

    အဓိက အရင်းအမြစ်
    2018-02-09 Traditional diets included a wide variety of ingredients from myriad wild and domesticated plants. Regional cuisines were shaped by native species in their local environment and by gradually-adopted plants from distant places. The modern global food system and market pressures have reversed this...
    Underutilized Crops Squash and Gourds ... Leafy Vegetables Perennial Vegetables Grain Legumes (Pul... Pulses Grain Crops Grains
     

  5. Momordica cochinchinensis - Gac

    Edible Portion: Leaves, Vegetable, Fruit, Spice A pumpkin family plant. It is a coarse vine up to 15 m long. It keeps growing from year to year. It has tuberous roots. It climbs by means of tendrils. It is slightly hairy. The leaves are 8 to 18 cm long, and 8-20 cm across and deeply 3 lobed and...
    Gac FPI Edible Leaves Vegetables Fruits Spices Plant Information
     

  6. Seed Cleaning and Seed Germination Testing poster

    အဓိက အရင်းအမြစ် 2019-10-01 Seed saving is an important pratice for small-scale farmers. Each crop is unique, and therefore each seed needs to be cleaned in a different way. In this workshop, Khun Wah will share her years of experience cleaning and saving seed of underutilized edible crop varieties that are important to SE...
    Seed Germination Cleaning Seeds ECHO Resources Asia
     

  7. Edible Leaves of the Tropics ; 3rd ed.

    အဓိက အရင်းအမြစ် 1998-10-01 Third Edition [library also has 2 copies of the 1975edition] People interested in tropical gardening or botany will find this an indispensable guide to several hundred species of plants with edible leaves. Leaves can provide high-quality food, and in the tropics, many are from perennials...
    Leaves Edible Plants Edible Leaves Tropical Agriculture Tropical plants Edible greens
     

  8. Fruits of Warm Climates

    အဓိက အရင်းအမြစ် 1987-11-01 This 505 page book is an exceptionally exhaustive source of information on tropical and subtropical fruits. It is a well-illustrated and very readable, practical guide for those interested in growing tropical and subtropical fruits either for the home garden or commercially. The fruits are...
    Tropical Fruit
     

  9. Gac

    Gac is a woody, perennial plant with vining stems reaching 6 m or more in length. Growing from tuberous roots, the vines are often seen climbing on fences or into the tops of trees. Its large (10-15 cm wide), dark green leaves have three to five lobes. Gac is dioecious, meaning that some plants...
    Squash and Gourds ...
     

  10. ဆန် Straw ၏ Amazing အကျိုးသက်ရောက်မှု

    2010-01-01 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #4 Does rice straw have any value? Looking at the practices of most farmers, it seems not! The burning of rice straw is a common sight during the harvest period in many parts of Asia. Yet a number of farmers think otherwise. One of them is Isidro Prado from...
    Organic Mulch Rice Soil Fertility Soil Remediation Asia