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Resources Tagged: Grain Crops

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  1. TN #91 Underutilized Crops for Small Farm Abundance

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    2018-02-09 Traditional diets included a wide variety of ingredients from myriad wild and domesticated plants. Regional cuisines were shaped by native species in their local environment and by gradually-adopted plants from distant places. The modern global food system and market pressures have reversed this...
    Underutilized Crops Squash and Gourds ... Leafy Vegetables Perennial Vegetables Grain Legumes (Pul... Pulses Grain Crops Grains

  2. TN #2 Amaranth Grain & Vegetable Types

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    1983-01-01 Amaranth [Amaranthus hypochondriacus, A. cruentus (grain type) & A. tricolor (vegetable type)] is an herbaceous annual with upright growth habit, cultivated for both its seeds which are used as a grain and its leaves which are used as a vegetable or green. Both leaves and seeds contain...
    Amaranth Grain Crops Leafy Vegetables HIV/AIDS

  3. Lessons Learned from the Spread of SRI in Cambodia

    2009-07-01 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #2 In a 2001 ECHO Development Notes article, “SRI, the System of Rice Intensification: Less can be more,” ECHO first reported on SRI’s radical rice production steps including: Transplanting rice seedlings when the first two leaves have emerged, usually sometime...
    System of Rice Int... Rice Grain Crops Farming Systems Adoption of New Te... Asia

  4. Amaranth Potential for the Highlands of Southeast Asia in View of Lessons Learned in East Africa

    2009-04-01 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #1 Based on the experiences of CRWRC and its collaborating partnering organizations in East Africa, the introduction of grain and vegetable amaranths shows real potential for the highlands of Southeast Asia. Grain amaranth should be seen and managed as a high...
    Amaranth Health and Nutrition Nutrition Dark Green Leafy V... Grain Crops Drought-tolerance Agriculture Extension Asia

  5. Oats

    Agronomy 523 X Contains different sections, each with own page numbers, illustrated, photos
    Oats Grain Crops Barley

  6. Low temperature & solar grain drying handbook.

    1980-01-01 Prepared under the direction of the Solar Energy subcommittee of the Midwest Plan Service. 86 pages, illustrated
    Grain Crops Solar Drying

  7. Job's Tears

    Job's tears is a tropical, 1 to 2 m tall annual grass. It is commonly found growing in many tropical areas of the world in ditches and low areas. Plants are commonly used for fodder and seeds are both consumed and used for bead craft.
    Grains Grain Crops

  8. Naked Oat

    Naked oats are an annual grass crop for cool weather with moist, well drained soil. In the tropics they do best in highland areas as a cover crop or forage. The grain is edible when cooked.
    Grain Crops Pasture and Feed C...

  9. SDC Agriculture and Food Security Network

    The SDC Agriculture and Food Security Network provides a knowledge exchange platform for all development practitioners with links to the activities of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in the area of Agriculture and Food Security. Membership is open to SDC staff and representatives...
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  10. Sesame

    Sesame is an erect, herbaceous, annual, broad-leaved plant, growing to 2.5 m in height. It is one of the oldest cultivated crops and mainly grown as a field crop for the seeds and especially oil extracted from the seeds.
    Grain Crops Industrial Crops