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  1. Key Resource 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...  
  2. Key Resource 2022-05-20 The current global situation calls for a multi-pronged approach to pest management. To be widely applicable, this approach must provide farmers with options to control pests at various scales of production (from small farms to very large operations) with a diversity of resources. Integrated pest...
     
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  4. Key Resource 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...  
  5. 1994-10-19 ECHO was contacted with a vivid description of problems of leaf-cutter ants in Guyana. The farmers even tried building water filled moats around plants but the ants built leaf bridges and crossed right over. Jack bean and Sesame may help control leaf-cutter ants.  
  6. 1997-01-19 Ideas for controlling leaf-cutter ants.  
  7. 2000-03-20 A method to protect gardens from leaf cutter ants (Atta sp.) using sweet potatoes.  
  8. 2023-03-28 Few things are as devastating as surveying your full garden one day only to wake up the following morning to find every leaf stripped from your crops with nothing but a trail of a few semi-circular fragments of your precious plants leading away from your garden. I am not sure there is any other...  
  9. 1997-01-19 More on Controlling Leaf Cutter Ants Small Scale Vegetable Oil Extraction Making Bonemeal Fertilizer Grevillea Rebusta Survives On Phosphorus-Poor Soil
     
  10. 2000-03-20 True Potato Seed Has Many Advantages A Story Involving Vetiver Grass Update on Your Bat Control Suggestion Mike Benge on Bat Houses Carl Campbell on cashew mildew Leaf Cutter Ant Control with Sweet Potato How are allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon and cloves propagated? Farming by the Stars in the Andes...