Resources Tagged: Cover Crops

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  1. Nutrient Quantity or Nutrient Access? A New Understanding of How to Maintain Soil Fertility in the Tropics

    2002-01-20 The conventional view of the relationship between soil nutrients and crop productivity in the tropics is leading to both damaging agricultural policies and inefficient and damaging farm-level practices. There is no need to use the huge quantities of chemical fertilizers that are so often...
    Organic Cover Crops Green Manures Acidic Soil Soil Health Plant Nutrition

  2. Velvet Bean (Mucuna pruriens)

    2003-01-20 In 1997 Milton Flores with CIDICCO in Honduras provided our seedbank with seed for a bush velvet bean that is being grown widely in Brazil. We have grown and distributed this bush velvet bean on a limited scale since that time, and now are offering it to our network.
    Velvet Bean Legume Cover Crops Green Manures Seeds

  3. Tithonia and Lantana–An update

    2005-01-20 These non-leguminous species were used as mulches by ICRAF researchers to increase maize yields. Leaves of both species contain up to 3 percent nitrogen. Surprisingly phosphorus also is found in high quantities in the leaves of these hedgerow weeds.
    Cover Crops Green Manures Mulch

  4. Cucumber as an intercrop

    2014-10-20 Nathanael Szobody submitted the following in response to an update in EDN 123 on research ECHO is doing in South Africa. We thought these comments were particularly interesting and insightful, as they illustrate the contribution that farmers can make to further our understanding of agricultural...
    Intercropping Cover Crops

  5. Dolichos lablab: A Legume that Feeds People, Animals and the Soil

    2004-01-20 The lablab beanLablab purpureus(orDolichos lablab) is a versatile subtropical and tropical nitrogen-fixing legume. It is a multipurpose legume that can be used as a cover crop, providing green manure, erosion control and weed suppression.
    Underutilized Crops Legume Cover Crops Green Manures Seeds

  6. Green Manure Cover Crops in Conservation Agriculture

    2017-02-08 Cover crops play a key role in sustainable agriculture by providing sustainable sources of nutrients as well as protective soil cover to minimize erosion and reduce moisture stresses. Examples of successful cover cropping systems in East Africa will be illustrated as well as constraints and...
    Cover Crops Green Manures and ... GMCC Sustainable Agricu... East Africa

  7. Rice Bean -Vigna umbellata: Another amazing green manure/cover crop

    2004-04-20 Rice bean (Vigna umbellata) is one of the top five most commonly grown green manure/cover crops in the world.
    Legume Cover Crops Green Manures Rice Bean

  8. Cowpea: Living Mulch under Maize

    2014-04-20 EDN 122 highlighted multi-purpose cowpea varieties with spreading vines that cover the soil. Below is an ECHO research update from South Africa relating our experience so far with a spreading cowpea variety intercropped with maize grown in a Foundations for Farming (FFF) system. “Living carpet”...
    Legume Cover Crops Green Manures and ... Mulch Cowpea Nutrient Retention Soil Moisture

  9. LACN Issue #1

    2017-03-30 Making Silage in Vichada Tech Note Spotlight: Biosand Water Filter Echoes from our Network: Member Highlight Adria and Job From ECHO's Technical Respose Team: Appropriate forage crops for clay soils From ECHO's Seed Bank: Forage peanut
    Tropical Forages Forages Appropriate Forage... Forage Water Filters Biosand Biosand Filter Silage Cover Crops Latin America and ...

  10. 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....
    Velvet Bean Cover Crops Legume Tropical Kudzu Desmodium