Resources Tagged: Cover Crops

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  1. Selecting Legumes as Green Manure/Cover Crops

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    2017-05-26 By integrating legumes into cropping systems, small-scale farmers in low-resource settings can invest in the long-term health and resilience of their soils. Success or failure depends largely on choosing the right legume(s). With that in mind, this document presents insights on legume selection...
    Green Manures Green Manure Cover... Green Manures and ... Cover Crops Legume Legumes Tropical legumes Lablab Mucuna Intercropping

  2. Climate Change Adapted Agriculture - GMCCs

    2017-05-23 This presentation on Gree Manure Cover Cropsseeks to answer the question: How do we achieve all of these objectives (profitability, practically, resiliency, reduced reliance on fossil-fuels, sustainability) when land is limited/degraded, inputs are unavailable or unattainable, labor is scarce,...
    GMCC Cover Crops Green Manure Cover... Climate Change Asia

  3. Cover Crops Knowledge and Implementation Willingness by Producers of Several Crops

    Abstract,Agronomía Mesoamericana, 2017 The objective of this study was to assess the knowledge on cover crops and native vegetation mulches and the willingness to implement them by papaya, oil palm, and banana producers in Costa Rica. An evaluation instrument with twenty eight questions to be...
    Cover Crops Latin America and ...

  4. Green Manure Crops

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    1985-01-01 Green manure crops are crops that are [often times in North America] grown to be turned under to increase soil fertility. Leguminous green manure crops ( i.e., those which can make nitrogen fertilizers from atmospheric nitrogen) can offer small-scale Third World farmers a tremendous number of...
    Mulch Conservation Agric... Soil Fertility Jackbean Mucuna Cover Crops Green Manures Green Manure Cover... Green Manures and ...

  5. Crotalaria juncea, A Promising Green Manure Crop for the Tropics

    This article is from ECHO Asia Note #3 Crotalaria juncea, or sunn hemp, is a member of the pea family (Fabaceae) grown in many countries as a green manure or forage crop. Originating in South Asia, but with a common cultivar developed in Hawaii, it is a fastgrowing, drought-tolerant and...
    Nitrogen Fixation Legume Cover Crops Green Manures Green Manure Cover... Green Manures and ... Asia

  6. 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 ...

  7. Green Manure/Cover Crop approach in RAMA-BC

    This document distinguishes between ‘anchor’ cover crops (that are intercropped with a main crop such as maize) and ‘secondary’ cover crops (that don’t compete with the main crop because they have a short life cycle, and that can help cover the soil at the start of the growing season). The...
    Green Manures Green Manure Cover... Cover Crops Green Manures and ...

  8. Cover crops in hillside agriculture: Farmer innovation with mucuna

    1998-02-01 218 pages, tables
    Mucuna Cover Crops

  9. Cover Crops: Keeping Nutrients Out of Waterways

    2017-01-01 Includes cover crop facts on how to keep nutrients out of waterways.
    Water Quality Mana... Phosphorus Crops and Nitrogen Cover Crops

  10. Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 1: Systems and Science

    2020-01-01 This volume summarises research on key components for successful Conservation Agriculture (CA). Chapters review the latest research on ways of optimising no-till techniques to minimise soil disturbance in relation to seeding, weeding and other operations. Chapters also review ways to improve soil...
    Soil Health Mulching Intercropping Crop Rotation Cover Crops No-Till Techniques Crop Science Conservation Agric...