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Evaluation of a cassava germplasm collection for reaction to three major diseases and the effect on yield
Thirty-five cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) genotypes from the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), germplasm collection were planted in May 1992 under natural disease infection conditions, at the ...
Food Policy Reforms in Central Asia: Setting the Research Priorities
This volume contains papers that were presented at a three-day workshop entitled “Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Policy Research in Central Asia: Setting the Priorities,” held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in July 1999. ...
Finance and Management of Small-scale Seed Enterprises
One of the key changes taking place in many countries is the greater participation of the
the private sector in seed production and supply, reflecting a general shift in economic policy.
There is, therefore, a need to ...
Agrometeorological aspects of agriculture and forestry in the arid zones
The arid zones of the world are all characterized by a large deficit of rainfall in relation to the potential evapotranspiration. Their distribution around the world is governed by the interaction of global atmospheric ...
Wheat leaf and stem rusts in the Nile Valley and Red Sea region: Incidence, spore movement, pathotypes and effective resistance genes.
Research on wheat rusts started in the 1988/89 growing season in Nile Valley and Red Sea Regional Program (NVRSRP), with available resources from the countries involved. It was further strengthened when the Netherlands ...
Comparison of conservation tillage systems in barley-based cropping systems in Northern Syria
Yields of rainfed barley (Hordeum vulgare) for feed and forage in small-ruminant production systems in low-rainfall areas of North Africa and West Asia are limited by low and erratic water availability. Therefore, the ...
A model-farm approach to research on crop-livestock integration — II. Experimental results
A six-year project was conducted to show how better crop-livestock integration and improved management increase the outputs of crops and sheep products. Three farm types were compared, consisting of different crop and sheep ...
CAC News No 6. October-December 2000
News from CGIAR Collaborative Research Program for Sustainable Agricultural Development in Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) covering the countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, ...
Field Screening for Resistance to Russian Wheat Aphid_4
Field screening for resistance to Russian wheat aphid_4
Long-term yield patterns in barley-based cropping systems in Northern Syria. 2. The role of feed legumes
Rotations of barley with feed legumes produce more biomass and crude protein than barley-fallow and continuous barley sequences, but scope remains to improve the potential value to farmers of feed legume-based systems. ...