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Based chiefly on his own research results, the author deals with the maximizing of rice yields by creating "ideal rice plants" instead of improving soil conditions as done by other researchers.
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This publication provides practical and comprehensive information to integrated pest managementworkers in rice fields throughout tropical Asia. It briefly discusses rice plant structure and growth stages and stresses their relation to pest management.
- 1972-01-01 Rice is the most widely consumed and ecologically adaptable cereal on earth, and in the first part of the book Hanks provides us with a synthesizing account of its history, the nature of its cultivation, its adaptablility, and the social and energy requirements necessary for its production. The...
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These papers summarized research efforts, described programs, identified problems with extension of rodent control technology, and outlined some new work, such as biological control, that may lead to more effective ways to reduce rice losses and the impact of rodents on community well-being.
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This book is of unusual significance. It is the first IADS-sponsored volume on a commodity written expecially for authorities, nonagricultural as well as agricultural, in developing countries and for the assistance agencies which cooperate with them.
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This handbook has been written as a guide to the construction of the rice dryer developed in the project. It is a translation from the original which was written in Thai and is based on experience gained in the field during the wet season of 1982.
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1991-07-01 This paper describes, through a case study, how the On-Farm Seed Project in Senegal has used farmer participatory research to improve resource-poor farmers' production of rice seed and food grain. Though the example is specific, the principles it illustrates -- for conducting research and for...
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1987-06-01 This publication includes technical studies and photos of the workshop and field work that were done. 48 pages, illustrated, photos
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In this book the author has endeavoured to present a picture of paddy cultivation throughout the world and to summarize the resuilts of the more important investigations on the crop.
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This publication introduces the "new rice for Africa". NERICA is well adapted to the harsh growing environment in sub-Saharan Africa.