Oil Crops
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Niger (Guizotia abyssinica (L.F., Compositae) is an oilseed crop cultivated in Ethiopia and India. It constitutes about 50% of Ethiopian and 3% of Indian oilseed production. In Ethiopia, it is cultivated on waterlogged soils where most crops and all other oilseeds fail to grow and contributes a...
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This volume on safflower attempts to address the needs of plant breeders, geneticists, genetic resources specialists, plant pathologist, crop entomologists and other interested in a practical tool for pursuing their interests in relation to safflower. The authors have attemped to emphasize the...
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Examines such diverse aspects as the chemical nature of vegetable oils, oilseeds as energy crops, the nature and biosynthesis of storage proteins, and the genetics and breeding of oil crops. Also explained are the processing of oilseed crops, the biosynthesis of fatty acids in higher plants,...
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01-01-2022 Sustainability, defined as 'meeting current needs without compromising the future', is a widely accepted goal across many sectors of society. Sustainability's criteria and indicators often only regard sustaining present conditions through increased resilience, intended as a system's capacity to...
- 20-01-2012 The result of a collaborative effort by small business owners and advisers in ACP countries, this manual covers everything you need to know about starting up and managing a small-scale cooking oil business. Helpfully illustrated with numerous tables, checklists and case studies, it highlights...