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GMCC Individual Plant Information

 

ECHO offers many Green Manures and Cover Crops in our seed banks around the world. For more information about available varieties see the GMCC Plant Information Sheets.

  1. Navigating the Pigeon Pea Value Chain

    2017-02-07 Pigeon pea is an important green manure/cover crop with multiple agronomic and market impacts for small farmers, and fits ideally in a conservation agriculture system. Kilimo Markets integrates value chains through enhancing production, inputs supply chains especially seed for which it is...
    Pigeon Pea Green Manures Cover Crops Value Chains Conservation Agric... East Africa

  2. Cowpea: Spotlight on Multi-Purpose Varieties

    2014-01-01 Cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) is a versatile legume grown for human consumption as well as for soil improvement and animal fodder. It is the second most-planted grain legume in Africa (National Research Council, 2006). Though cultivated throughout the tropics, and thus familiar to smallholder...
    Cowpea Legume Pulse Tropical Agriculture Green Manures biomass

  3. 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

  4. The Rise of Pigeon Peas in Importance

    2017-02-07 Pigeon pea is an important green manure/cover crop with multiple agronomic and market impacts for small farmers, and fits ideally in a conservation agriculture system. Presenter : Said Silim has recently retired from a distinguished career in international development from ICRISAT, and helped to...
    Pigeon Pea Conservation Agric... Cover Crops Green Manures Smallholder Farm East Africa

  5. Soybean

    1988-04-01 The soybean (Glycine max) is one of the most important food plants of the world, and seems to be growing in importance. It is an annual crop, fairly easy to grow, that produces more protein and oil per unit of land than almost any other crop. It is a versatile food plant that, used in its various...
    Glycine max Soya bean Soybeans

  6. Further Support for the Use of Lablab in Dry Areas

    2013-04-20 The article by Dov Pasternak about lablab (in this issue) reminded me of material in ECHO’s files from many years ago. Reimar von Schaaffhausen, working in São Paulo, Brazil, sent articles and letters over the years about the valuable role that lablab (and pigeon pea [Cajanus cajan]) have played...
    Lablab GMCC Intercropping

  7. Lablab (Lablab purpureus) New Staple Crop for the Sudano Sahel

    Key Resource
    2013-01-20 About 98% of agricultural production in the Sudano Sahelian region of West and Central Africa is based on rainfed crops. With a mean annual rainfall of 300 to 800 mm/year, the number of staple crops is very limited. It includes two grain crops: pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) for sandy soils...
    Lablab Pulses Intercropping Food Security FMNR Forage Crop Nitrogen Fixation Rain-fed Agriculture

  8. Leucaena

    1984-01-19 Leucaena leucocephala ("koa haole"-Hawaii; ipil ipil - Phillipines) is a fast-growing, leguminous tree that can be used for reforestation, for firewood, and as a forage crop that can equal alfalfa in nutritional value. There are three basic types of leucaena trees: Hawaiian, Salvador, and Peru....
    Leucaena leucocephala Leucaena Forage

  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
    Cover Crops Silage Biosand Filter Biosand Water Filters Forage Appropriate Forage... Forages Tropical Forages Latin America and ...

  10. 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